“Like the outstanding first edition of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses by Drs. Fontaine, Cunningham, and May, this second edition is chock-full of a wide variety of terrific evidence-based strategies to help students and nurses achieve their optimal health and well-being. If you are committed to putting the helpful strategies covered in this book into daily practice, the resulting outcomes will be improvement in your physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being as well as success in your career and personal life.”
–Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, EBP-C, FNAP, FNAP, FAAN
INDIANAPOLIS—Self-care is simply imperative for nurses, and the best time to find what works is early in a nurse’s training. In this updated Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) title, Self-Care for New and Student Nurses, authors Dorrie K. Fontaine, Tim Cunningham, and Natalie May equip the profession’s newest members with the tools they will need to face and overcome stressors that contribute to high turnover, empathy fatigue, moral distress, and burnout.
In Self-Care for New and Student Nurses, the authors emphasize that waiting until a crisis to take time for self-care is too late. Students, new nurses, and nurses in all stages of their careers should learn a variety of self-care practices and find the ones that work specifically for them individually. Each section of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses focuses on different aspects of self-care, such as how to be aware of stressors and how to develop a resilient mindset; self-care for underrepresented nursing professionals; spirituality; building healthy working relationships; integrating work and life; and more.
Self-Care for New and Student Nurses
By Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN; Tim Cunningham, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN; Natalie May, PhD
Published by Sigma, 2024
ISBN-13: 9781646481705
EPUB ISBN: 9781646481712
PDF ISBN: 9781646481729
Price: US $64.95
Trade paperback, 354 pages
Trim size: 8.5x11 in.
About the authors:
Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Dean Emerita at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing and founder of UVA’s Compassionate Care Initiative, which has grown to be a guiding force in transforming the culture of the school with a focus on fostering human flourishing and resilience for students, faculty, and staff.
Tim Cunningham, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN, is an international keynote speaker and well-being consultant. He is the former Vice President of Practice and Innovation at Emory Healthcare, where he also held a joint appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
Natalie May, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Research at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing. She is a founding member of the UVA Center for Appreciative Practice, where she develops and teaches Appreciative Inquiry projects and workshops.
About Sigma:
The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere. Founded in 1922, Sigma has more than 100,000 active members and 600 chapters at institutions of higher education and healthcare partners from Armenia, Australia, and Botswana to Thailand, the United States, and Wales. Sigma members include clinical nurses and administrators, academic nurse educators and researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and others working to fulfill the organization’s vision of connected, empowered nurses transforming global healthcare.
Learn more at SigmaNursing.org.