Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing : Enhancing Professional Quality of Life
Language: English
Published by Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2019
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- Title
- Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing : Enhancing Professional Quality of Life
- Author
- Todaro-Franceschi, Vidette
- Publisher
- Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826155197
- ISBN 13
- 9780826155191
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 1.08 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Written by an acknowledged expert in end of life education, professional quality of life, and clinical leadership, this compassion fatigue workbook addresses the complex nature of well-being in the nursing workforce. Supported by research but written from a holistic and personal perspective, the text includes case studies and exercises that will help the reader to identify negative patterns and explore ways to find nurse stress relief and purpose.
New to the Second Edition:
- Expanded emphasis on how workforce well-being contributes to care quality
- Updated resources/information on national nursing initiatives related to professional quality of life
- New chapter on workplace violence (incivility, bullying and mobbing)
- New chapter on education related to improving PQOL and work environment
- Provides a Nurse Leaders Resource Toolkit to guide staff education
Key Features:
- Articulates an ethic of care developed from a transdisciplinary perspective
- Increases nurse awareness of issues that might be hindering their PQOL
- Provides strategies for enhancing staff contentment and productivity, thereby promoting a healthy work environment and reducing chances of compassion fatigue and nurse burnout
- Includes real-life examples from critical care, end-of-life care, hospice, oncology, and more
- Assists nurses with grief healing
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About the Author
Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT, is professor emerita of nursing of the City University of New York, having taught at Kingsborough, Hunter, The College of Staten Island, and the Graduate Center for a combination of over 25 years. A registered nurse for 41 years, she has worked in a variety of roles and settings as staff, head nurse, assistant director, clinical supervisor, clinical nurse specialist, consultant and educator. Most of her practice career was spent working in critical care areas, which later led to scholarly work in the areas of holistic health and healing, end-of-life/palliative care, and professional quality of life. A CUNY child, she earned her AAS and BSN in nursing at the College of Staten Island and her MS in nursing at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. Dr. Todaro-Franceschi earned her PhD in nursing at New York University, where she performed a transdisciplinary philosophical inquiry on ideas of energy, for which she earned several awards. She is the author of two books, many articles, chapters, and digital stories. Her first authored book, The Enigma of Energy, is based on her doctoral research; she has since then performed seminal research in the areas of bereavement healing, end-of-life nursing education, and professional quality of life, and has been consulted by professionals around the world about her work. A passionate voice for nursing, she has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on end of life and professional quality of life. She has been an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) trainer since the first cohort in 2001.
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