Supporting Compassionate Healthcare Practice: Understanding the Role of Resilience, Positivity and W

Supporting Compassionate Healthcare Practice: Understanding the Role of Resilience, Positivity and Wellbeing

By Claire Chambers and Elaine Ryder

Compassionate healthcare can be challenging for practitioners to deliver day after day in a context of tight budgets and targets. This text compiles what we know about how healthcare professionals can look after themselves to order to maintain and develop their compassionate healthcare practice. It explores thinking around stress management, resilience, wellbeing and positivity, presenting and critiquing the evidence base for these key concepts.

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Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 10/09/2018
Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781138092099
ISBN-10: 1138092096
Language: English

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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 maintain and develop their compassionate practice. This book considers how stress management, resilience, wellbeing and positivity can help all health professionals remain close to the values, attitudes and attributes that brought them into the caring professions. It presents and critiques the evidence base for these key concepts, bringing them to life with numerous case studies and examples, and develops a framework - RESPECT - for practice.

This innovative volume is essential reading for all healthcare students, academics and professionals interested in improving both the quality of care and the wellbeing of patients and practitioners alike.

About the Authors

Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. His books include Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1996) ; Decentring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis (2000) ; Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography (2006) ; and Muslim Spaces of Hope (2009, Zed Books).

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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.

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