Health and Wellbeing at Work for Nurses and Midwives, 1st Edition

SECTION 1 The Case for Health and WellBeing at Work
1 Why Health Care Employers Should Promote Health: The Costs of Ill Health at Work
2 Caring for Yourself, To Care for Others: Prioritising Self-Care
3 How Staff WellBeing Relates to Patient Experiences of Care
4 How Stress and Anxiety Affect the Body
5 Understanding Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
SECTION 2 Managing Emotions in Difficult Times
6 Untangling Difficult Emotions on the Job
7 Starting Conversations About Your Mental Health
8 Dealing With Anxiety and Low Mood
SECTION 3 Wellbeing Needs at Different Times
9 Shiftwork, Sleep, and Managing Fatigue
10 WellBeing Needs During Periods of Fasting
11 Mental WellBeing in Nursing and Midwifery Students
12 WellBeing and Late Career Nurses and Midwives
SECTION 4 Enhancing Wellbeing at Work
13 Psychologically Safe Working Environments
14 Clinical Supervision and WellBeing
15 Developing Teamwork and Social Support Across Occupational Boundaries
16 Enhancing Health and WellBeing Through Shared Governance
17 Acknowledging the Emotional and Social Challenges of Nursing and Midwifery Through Schwartz Rounds
18 Supporting Distressed Colleagues Using Psychological First Aid
19 Being Physically Active
20 Healthy Eating, Diet, and Obesity
21 The Impacts of Dehydration and Staying Hydrated at Work
22 The Challenge of Health and WellBeing in a Crisis
23 The Future of Health and WellBeing at Work
INDEX

Holly Blake, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, PGCHE, BA (Hons), SFHEA, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK and Gemma Stacey, PhD, MN, RN (MENTAL HEALTH), PGCHE, PFHEAD, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, The Florence Nightingale Foundation, London, UK