1st Edition

Supporting compassionate healthcare practice Understanding the role of resilience, positivity and wellbeing

By Claire Chambers, Elaine Ryder Copyright 2019
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

The pursuit of excellent compassionate care should be at the heart of all practice. However, it can be challenging for practitioners to deliver this day after day in a context of tight budgets and targets, which can erode the passion with which they entered their professions. Supporting Compassionate Healthcare Practice encourages healthcare professionals to look after themselves in order to... Read more

Foreword

Preface

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. A compassionate care environment – what does this mean for patients and clients?

Chapter 2. A compassionate care environment – what does this mean for practitioners?

Chapter 3. The benefits of effective stress management strategies

Chapter 4. The benefits of resilience

Chapter 5. The benefits of wellbeing

Chapter 6. The benefits of positivity

Chapter 7. The benefits of compassion for patients, clients and practitioners

Biography

Claire Chambers teaches on the Open University nursing programme. She is a health visitor and nurse and has led public health and community practice programmes at Oxford Brookes University.

Elaine Ryder works for Age UK with older people with mental health needs. She has a nursing and district nursing background and has led community practice programmes at Oxford Brookes University.