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

A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare looks at how to maintain wellbeing in today?s challenging healthcare environments, enabling practitioners to make a positive difference to the care environment whilst providing compassionate care to patients.

This practical guide focuses on strategies to maintain health and wellbeing as health care practitioners, in relation to stress management, resilience and positivity. Health and social care practitioners have been challenged over and above anything they have faced before due to the Covid pandemic. These situations have caused extreme trauma and stress to patients, their loved ones and those who have been struggling to care for them. The book highlights why resilience and good stress management are crucial, and how they can be achieved through a focus on wellbeing and positivity, referring to her RESPECT toolkit: Resilience, Emotional intelligence, Stress management, Positivity, Energy and motivation, Challenge and Team leadership.

This is essential reading for all those working in healthcare today who are passionate about compassionate care and want to ensure that they remain positive and well, particularly newly qualified staff.

1.The importance of compassion and why positivity and resilience matters. 2. Why is compassionate care challenging and how can I overcome these challenges? 3.Why do I need to focus on my stress management in order to focus on compassionate care? 4.How can I increase my resilience? 5.How can I reduce negative thinking and increase my positivity? 6.How can I take a lead on compassionate practice, stress management, resilience and positivity in my team

Claire Chambers teaches on the Open University nursing and nursing associate programmes and is passionate about supporting students in practice and focusing on their excellent practice. She has previously led the community nursing and public health programmes at Oxford Brookes University and has practised as a health visitor and a nurse in a range of community and acute settings.