Overcoming secondary stress in medical and nursing practice : a guide to professional resilience and personal well-being

Overcoming secondary stress in medical and nursing practice : a guide to professional resilience and personal well-being / Robert J. Wicks.

Suitable for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, this book helps them understand acute and chronic secondary stress, develop a personally designed self-care protocol, and strengthen one's inner life. It also features a "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Aw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wicks, Robert J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Physicians > Job stress.
Nurses > Job stress.
Medical personnel > Job stress.
Physicians > Mental health.
Nurses > Mental health.
Medical personnel > Mental health.
Burn out (Psychology) > Prevention.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Self-care, Health.
Stress management.
MEDICAL > Physicians.
Burnout, Professional > prevention and control.
Allied health personnel > Psychology.
Nurses > psychology.
Patient Care > psychology.
Physicians > psychology.
Burn out (Psychology) > Prevention
Medical personnel > Job stress
Medical personnel > Mental health
Nurses > Job stress
Nurses > Mental health
Physicians > Job stress
Physicians > Mental health
Self-care, Health
Stress management
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Table of Contents:
  • Tacking on dangerous psychological waters : appreciating the factors involved in chronic and acute secondary stress
  • "Riding the dragon" : enhancing self-knowledge and self-talk in the health care professional
  • Drawing from the well of wisdom : three core spiritual approaches to maintaining perspective and strengthening the inner life of the physician, nurse, and allied health professional
  • The simple care of a hopeful heart : developing a personally designed self-care protocol.

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