The authors have created a brilliant, reader-centric, practical, powerful, and evidence-based guide designed for new and student nurses, yet effective for preceptors and faculty alike. Imagine a resource so engaging and effective you turn to it time and time again to inform and support your whole-person well-being.
Teri Pipe, PhD, RN
Richard E. Sinaiko Professor in Health Care Leadership
School of Nursing
Core Faculty, Center for Healthy Minds
Distinguished Fellow, National Academies of Practice
University of Wisconsin-Madison
This extraordinary book will be the voice in the ear of every young nurse who reads it throughout their career, sustaining them through the hard times and providing what it takes to be the skillful, compassionate nurses they dreamed of being.
Bonnie Barnes, FAAN
Doctor of Humane Letters (h.c)
Co-founder, The DAISY Foundation
This is an astonishingly rich and relevant text that truly should be required in every nursing program. If widely adopted, this text has the potential to transform the profession.
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director, Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing
Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
As a nursing student, you’re taught to expect a variety of challenges while caring for your patients and juggling competing priorities as you begin your career. And, though you may know better, your personal well-being can become the last thing you consider in your hectic student or new-nurse life.
This second edition of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses equips you to confidently face stressors now and in the future. No matter where you are in your nursing career, this book offers you multiple strategies to prioritize your own mental, physical, and emotional health. Authors Dorrie K. Fontaine, Tim Cunningham, and Natalie May showcase a group of strong contributors whose valuable tips and exercises will help you:
- Find joy and a sense of mattering at work
- Manage anxiety, loneliness, and depression
- Address imposter syndrome, practice self-compassion, and thrive during clinicals
- Cope and seek help with racial tensions, substance abuse, suicide risks, and other traumas
- Spot the stressors that lead to burnout
- Prioritize sleep, exercise, and nutrition
- Build a toolkit of self-care techniques, including in-the-moment practices for an ideal workday
- Develop a resilient mindset
- Establish boundaries
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Section I: Fundamentals
- Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care
- Chapter 2: The Fundamentals of Resilience, Growth, and Wisdom
- Chapter 3: Developing a Resilient Mindset Using Appreciative Practices
- Section II: The Mind of a Nurse
- Chapter 4: Self-Care, Communal Care, and Resilience Among Underrepresented Minoritized Nursing Professionals and Students
- Chapter 5: Self-Care for LGBTQIA+ Nursing Students
- Chapter 6: Racial Trauma and Healing
- Chapter 7: Narrative Practices
- Chapter 8: Self-Care and Systemic Change: What You Need to Know
- Chapter 9: Strengths-Based Self-Care: Good Enough, Strong Enough, Wise Enough
- Section III: The Body and Spirit of a Nurse
- Chapter 10: Reclaiming, Recalling, and Remembering: Spirituality and Self-Care
- Chapter 11: Sleep, Exercise, and Nutrition: Self-Care the Kaizen Way
- Chapter 12: Reflections on Self-Care and Your Clinical Practice
- Section IV: The Transition to Nursing Practice
- Chapter 13: Supportive Professional Relationships: Nurse Residency Programs, Preceptors, and Mentors
- Chapter 14: Healthy Work Environment: How to Choose One for Your First Job
- Chapter 15: Self-Care for Humanitarian Aid Workers
- Section V: The Heart of a Nurse
- Chapter 16: Mattering: Creating a Rich Work Life
- Chapter 17: Integrating a Life That Works With a Life That Counts
- Chapter 18: Providing Compassionate Care and Addressing Unmet Social Needs Can Reduce Your Burnout
- Chapter 19: Showing Up With Grit and Grace: How to Lead Under Pressure as a Nurse Clinician and Leader
- Chapter 20: Coaching Yourself When Things Are Hard
AVAILABLE ON THE SIGMA REPOSITORY
- Chapter 16: Mattering: Creating a Rich Work Life
- Author Bios
These free downloads are available at the Sigma Repository.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Dean Emerita at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing and founder of UVA’s Compassionate Care Initiative, which has grown to be a guiding force in transforming the culture of the school with a focus on fostering human flourishing and resilience for students, faculty, and staff.
Tim Cunningham, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN, is an international keynote speaker and well-being consultant. He is the former Vice President of Practice and Innovation at Emory Healthcare, where he also held a joint appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
Natalie May, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Research at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing. She is a founding member of the UVA Center for Appreciative Practice, where she develops and teaches Appreciative Inquiry projects and workshops.
