If people and organisations in healthcare cannot care for themselves, how can they care for the populations and communities they exist to serve? Healthcare professionals and their organisations are subject to growing pressures, including regular reviews and reorganisations, coping with the impact of an aging population, financial pressures, shrinking of career prospects and enhanced expectations of what a healthcare system can do - all within a fierce media spotlight. Many healthcare staff also experience physical and psychological stress caused by long working hours. This practical guide has been written specifically for individuals who are experiencing anxieties engendered by working in healthcare. It examines the reasons why healthcare organisations are susceptible to these difficulties and considers the possible causes of such stress. By adopting a workbook format it suggests practical ways personal resilience can be developed and enhanced, and offers tools to stimulate thought and assist this process. Human resource managers, counsellors, training and development professionals, coaches, mentors and leadership consultants within healthcare organisations will also find this workbook enlightening.

About the Author
John Edmonstone is a leadership, management and organisation development consultant who works in the public sector in the UK. He has held a wide range of line, project and human resource management positions and runs a successful consultancy business based in Ripon, North Yorkshire. He is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Professional Practice at Keele University, Fellow at the Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Associate at the Centre for Innovation in Health Management, University of Leeds, Associate at the Edinburgh Institute of Leadership and Management Practice, Edinburgh Napier University, and Visiting Lecturer on the Master's in International Health programme, University of Copenhagen. He is External Examiner for the MA in Medical Leadership in Clinical Settings at the University of Brighton.

Reviews
'Healthcare professionals and the organisations they work for face increasing challenges, whether caring for the sick or working at an operational level. Remaining healthy and resilient is a challenge so this book is a welcome resource... It has merit as a self-help book but would probably be even better used as an organisational resource, thus ensuring everyone is moving in a similar direction.' Phil Russell, lecturer practitioner bereavement service, The Rowans Hospice, Hampshire, UK, Nursing Older People Journal 'Written in an engaging and accessible style, this is a useful resource for nurse managers, team leaders and educationalists, if only to act as an aide-memoire.' Rebecca Verity, NIHR doctoral research fellow, King's College London, UK, Cancer Nursing Practice Journal



Book Information
ISBN 9781846199837
Author John Edmonstone
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 614g