SelfCare for HealthCare: The Best Way to Care for Patients Is to Care for Ourselves

In these challenging times, health care leaders struggle with work compression, doing the same amount of work in fewer hours. Often torn between the needs of administration and those of their staff, nurse leaders are experiencing stress, burnout, and health issues at rates equal to those they manage. They expect their staff to deliver comprehensive, compassionate patient care to improve outcomes, satisfaction and engagement scores, and reimbursements. Yet, wise nurse leaders know that caregivers cannot meet those expectations if they are physically, mentally, or spiritually exhausted.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nurse Leader

• Publication date

  2018-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.MNL.2018.07.014
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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