Psychiatric Nursing

Self-Care for New and Student Nurses presents techniques to prepare you for stressors present now and those to come. No matter where you are in your nursing career, this book offers you multiple ways to prioritize your own mental, physical, and emotional health.

This book explores clear, straightforward, and practical techniques for cultivating resilience and positive mental health strategies in the face of a demanding clinical environment. You'll find stress-busting tools as well as exercises intended for long-term relief of stress incorporated throughout the book.

Provides nurses with the tools, practices, and strategies to enhance their well-being and protect against burnout. Learn about the research underpinning the science of well-being and discover practices that can reduce stress, rejuvenate your capacity for caring, and improve the quality of your own life. Informed by inspirational stories and real-life guidance from nurses around the world, this book provides you with the steps to thrive personally and professionally.

The book offers an evidence-based "menu" of options, so the reader can connect with the practices that resonate or fit into their lifestyle. The entire book is written in small, bite-sized doses. Read a few pages on the bus or during a break.

The reflective activities in this workbook focus helping readers apply their own personal set of tools for thriving in their healthcare career.

Provides nurses with the tools, practices, and strategies to enhance their well-being and protect against burnout. The ultimate journey to well-being is one that is essential, inclusive, deep-rooted, individual, and above all, courageous.

Shares simple mindfulness practices and brief meditations that fit easily into the demanding schedule of a healthcare worker's day, creating an experience of less stress and more presence, connection, ease, and flow.

This easy-to-follow book offers a new skill set to cope with the challenges of nursing and sustain compassion in the long term. Backed by scientific evidence, the book teaches mindfulness and compassion practices to lessen stress, enhance relationships, improve patient care, and reduce patient risk.