Personal Resilience for Healthcare Staff: When the Going Gets Tough

by John Edmonstone

Overview

In this book, the author explores what day-to-day pressures are and why they seem to affect healthcare staff in different ways. He offers a helpful model of personal resilience with thoughtful and easily applied strategies for survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040280164
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152

About the Author

John Edmonstone

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: The Way We Live Now 1. Employment in today’s organisations 2. Healthcare organisations: Cradled in anxiety? Part II: Personal Resilience: Strategies for Survival 3. Ensuring a secure base 4. A reality orientation 5. An ability to improvise 6. Self-care Part III: Resources 7. Introduction 8. Personal Resources 9. Constructing a lifeline 10. Core process exercise 11. Emotional intelligence questionnaire 12. Finding, decoding and experimenting with ‘trigger’ events 13. Life launch 14. Personal SWOT analysis 15. Strategies, strengths, resources, insights review 16. The shield 17. Work–life balance wheel 18. Work values cards 19. Organisational Resources 20. Action learning 21. Appreciative inquiry 22. Assessment centre 23. Attachments 24. Best boss exercise 25. Coaching 26. Development centre 27. Emotional intelligence 28. Focus groups 29. Giving and getting feedback 30. Managing emails 31. Managing meetings 32. Mentoring 33. Nine tips for overcoming procrastination 34. Role negotiation technique 35. Say what you see 36. Secondments 37. Shadowing 38. Some helpful aphorisms 39. Techniques for dealing with anger in others 40. Three types of behaviour 41. Tips on dealing with face-to-face criticism 42. What healthcare organisations should be doing 43. Further reading

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Michelle Lynn Chasse, BS, MBA (A. T. Still University)
Description: With the multiple tools and resources to grow and develop resilience on a personal and organizational level in this book, the author has created a resource for all healthcare workers.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide personal coaching strategies for healthcare workers during difficult and high stress times arising from increasing job demands, smaller budgets, and more tasks to complete in a day.
Audience: In addition to stressed and overworked healthcare staff and professionals, the book is also geared towards human resource staff whose responsibility is to improve workplace morale and job satisfaction. The author has extensive education and experience in leadership and consulting in the public sector.
Features: The book contains useful, hands-on personal resources for analyzing one's resilience and finding areas of improvement. It defines how those who display personal resilience excel and explores ways readers can improve in these areas. It provides a practical process for healthcare workers to become more resilient over time through self-discovery resources and implementing a "life launch." The resources create a feeling of ownership in the process of becoming more resilient. The book also provides organizational resources for coaching and mentoring employees.
Assessment: This book provides current, valuable strategies for healthcare employees to use on a daily basis to decrease stress and become more resilient in all aspects of the job that will carry over into everyday life as well.

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