Coping with Caring : A Nurse's Guide to Better Health and Job Satisfaction.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Coping with Caring -- Author -- 1 Psychological Distress in Nursing -- Compassion Fatigue/Secondary Traumatic Stress and Vicarious Traumatization -- Moral Distress -- Burnout Syndrome -- Defining Burnout Syndrome in Nursing -- Triggers of Burnout Syndrome in Nursing -- Measuring and Diagnosing Burnout Syndrome in Nursing -- The Burnout Measure -- The Maslach Burnout Inventory -- Diagnosing Burnout Syndrome -- Prevalence of Burnout Syndrome in Nursing -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- PTSD in Nursing -- Theoretical Perspective of PTSD in Nursing -- Prevalence of PTSD Symptoms and Diagnosis in Nursing -- Overlap in Psychological Distress and/or Disorders in Nursing -- References -- 2 Triggers and Narratives -- Junior Nurses -- Narrative #1 -- Narrative #2 -- Coworker Arguments -- Patient Deaths -- Narrative #1 -- Narrative #2 -- Physical and Verbal Abuse -- Guilt Associated with Bad Care -- Helping Family Members through Trauma -- Narrative #1 -- Narrative #2 -- 3 Resilience -- Processing Stress in the Workplace -- Defining Resilience -- Three Waves of Resilience Inquiry -- Moral Resilience -- Group/Institutional Resilience -- Ten Psychological Characteristics of Resilience That Can Be Learned -- Cognitive Flexibility -- Social Support -- Active Coping Skills -- Measuring Resilience -- Connor Davidson Resilience Scale -- Resilience in Nursing -- Writing -- Event-Triggered Counseling Sessions -- Mindfulness Practices -- Aerobic Exercise -- References -- 4 Mindfulness Practices -- Background -- Mindfulness and Use in Healthcare -- Sitting Meditation -- Three-Minute Breathing Space Exercise -- Body Scan Meditation -- Other Treatments Involving Mindfulness -- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy -- Dialectical Behavior Therapy -- Mindfulness Practice while Working -- References.

5 Writing for Wellness -- Writing to Improve Resilience in Nursing -- Study One: A Multimodal Resilience Training Program for Intensive Care Unit Nurses -- Exemplar #1 -- Exemplar #2 -- Study Two: WET for ICU Nurses -- Developing Your Own Writing Practice -- References -- Index.

This book provides the nurse, and the administrators who manage them, with an overview of the psychological disorders that are prevalent in their profession, first-person narratives from nurses and detailed descriptions of promising coping strategies that can be used to mitigate symptoms of distress.

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