This essential guide for nurses and allied health and care professionals equips you with the tools and knowledge for self-care, mindfulness, and overall well-being, enabling you to continue providing compassionate care for others.
Caring for yourself enables you to provide the best care for others. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, communities’ health and well-being have been affected, especially those working in the caring professions, allied health professionals, support workers, social care professionals or charity and volunteer group members. For students and practitioners alike this book delves into important self-care research and how you can apply it to your personal and professional lives. It is organised into three distinct well-being sections:
Written by a diverse group of contributors who work within the nursing and allied healthcare fields, this book shares their real-life experiences, expert knowledge, insights and relational-centred practices. As it examines these three important pillars of self-care, it addresses the importance of establishing the relational aspects of caring as a process that requires as much attention as professional practice expertise.
Accessibly written, the book provides opportunities for self-reflection, and challenges assumptions and biases that can occur in professional education and training. Practitioners and professionals can use this book as a personal self-help guide, as a learning tool with colleagues, or just as a discussion point with friends, helping strengthen their overall well-being, relationships and interactions with their peers and those in their care.
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION Sally Hardy
Looking after number one: Why bother? – Sally Hardy
Part 1 PHYSICAL WELL-BEING
Health, wealth and happiness – is it possible to have it all? - Carrie Jackson
Who am I? What and how to be empathic at work - Jess Steward
Eat, drink and be merry: tomorrow we diet – Sally Hardy
Part 2 EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Survival of the workforce : a toolkit for trauma management – Oscar Ochu
In search of meaning through making - Jonathan Webster
Face, place, space to be me - Rebecka Hill/ Julia Hubbard
Social encounters at work: sharing is indeed caring Susanne – Susanne Linqhuist/Joel Owen/ Georgia Panagiotaki
Part 3 PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
Gambling with my well-being - Sally Hardy
Well-being at work: lessons from COVID-19 - Steve Green/ Kate Roberts
Leading well, living well – Alice Webster
About the author
Sally Hardy is closely linked with health and social care, through working with individuals, teams and organizations, promoting practitioner-led inquiry and transformational change through evidence-based health care. Sally’s work now focuses on leading the Norfolk Initiative for Coastal and rural Health Equalities (NICHE), Anchor Institute for the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System. Sally’s research embraces understanding what factors contribute to sustainable workplace cultures and effective health and social care systems. She has recently taken on the leadership role of the NICHE Anchor Institute at UEA, and has become a non-executive director with Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Trust.
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