A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare - How to Develop Resilience and Wellbeing in Today’s Stressful Environment (Paperback)

A guide to compassionate healthcare looks at how you can maintain your own wellbeing in today’s challenging healthcare environments, making a positive difference to your workplace and providing compassionate care to patients without fear of burnout. This practical guide outlines the reasons why resilience and good stress management are so important, and how they can be achieved through a focus on wellbeing and positivity. Using their newly developed RESPECT toolkit, the authors introduce a range of strategies to incorporate into your daily life. With a chapter focusing on each element of the model – Resilience, Emotional intelligence, Stress management, Positivity, Energy and motivation, Challenge and Team leadership – the book includes overviews of the relevant evidence, exercises, case studies and practice recommendations. This is an important book for all those working in healthcare today, particularly newly qualified staff.