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SHIFT Stress: Get Back to What you do Best: for Nurses, Caregivers and other Health Care Professionals
Caring for others is an extremely satisfying experience, but one that shouldn’t come at the cost of your own health and happiness. Nurses and health care providers are often stressed at not being able to care for their patients the way they want to. When the demand for beds reaches over capacity, caring for more patients with fewer resources takes its toll. The demands of deadlines, expectations of patient care from families and management can be overwhelming. Sometimes pleasing everyone else leaves little time for one’s self.
WHAT IF YOU COULD LEARN EASY WAYS TO MAKE YOUR DAY LESS STRESSFUL?
If you are a health care provider or caregiver who is struggling with anxiety, depression or coping with the demands of each day; then this book is for you.
It offers lots of practical tools in every chapter to help you create a “tool box” that will support your emotional health.
This book will help you learn how to:
• Identify where you are holding and carrying your stress in your body
• Help you to recognize the triggers that you react to
• Feel your feelings, don’t disown them - own them
• Learn to respond differently instead of reacting
• Learn to manage your emotions when conflict arises
WHAT IF YOU COULD LEARN EASY WAYS TO MAKE YOUR DAY LESS STRESSFUL?
If you are a health care provider or caregiver who is struggling with anxiety, depression or coping with the demands of each day; then this book is for you.
It offers lots of practical tools in every chapter to help you create a “tool box” that will support your emotional health.
This book will help you learn how to:
• Identify where you are holding and carrying your stress in your body
• Help you to recognize the triggers that you react to
• Feel your feelings, don’t disown them - own them
• Learn to respond differently instead of reacting
• Learn to manage your emotions when conflict arises
246 pages, Paperback
Published November 10, 2020
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May 15, 2021
This book is excellent!!!
Written by a long-time nurse, who is also a psychotherapist, the author lends an enormous amount of credibility to her subject matter. Based on her personal experience in the field, as well as the work she has done in her capacity as an Occupational Health nurse, Ms. Richards provides an incredible array of tangible and easily adoptable strategies based in research that can help minimize the stress nurses, caregivers and front-line staff experience in their day-to-day personal and professional lives. (I think I counted at least 25!) Overtime these strategies and tips have the potential to build habits that strengthen resiliency and minimize burnout.
This important book is even more relevant in this time of the Covid pandemic when front line staff are making incredible sacrifices to keep others safe and are crumbling under the weight of tragedy and heightened responsibility.
If you are a nurse, caregiver or other health care professional, PLEASE invest in your own self-care by reading this book. And even if you are not in that category, this book will have loads of benefit for you as well. It certainly did for me!
Written by a long-time nurse, who is also a psychotherapist, the author lends an enormous amount of credibility to her subject matter. Based on her personal experience in the field, as well as the work she has done in her capacity as an Occupational Health nurse, Ms. Richards provides an incredible array of tangible and easily adoptable strategies based in research that can help minimize the stress nurses, caregivers and front-line staff experience in their day-to-day personal and professional lives. (I think I counted at least 25!) Overtime these strategies and tips have the potential to build habits that strengthen resiliency and minimize burnout.
This important book is even more relevant in this time of the Covid pandemic when front line staff are making incredible sacrifices to keep others safe and are crumbling under the weight of tragedy and heightened responsibility.
If you are a nurse, caregiver or other health care professional, PLEASE invest in your own self-care by reading this book. And even if you are not in that category, this book will have loads of benefit for you as well. It certainly did for me!
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