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RN Helps Others Avoid Nurse Burnout, Turnover with New Book The Nurse Doctor Provides Techniques, Coaches Peers to Care for Themselves in Order to Help Others Nurse burnout and turnover is a serious issue facing America s healthcare system, annually accounting for one-in-five of the country s 2 million nurses to change jobs or quit the profession outright. This tumult is part of a larger problem where work-related stress is contributing to a $26 billion challenge for U.S. healthcare facilities today. Doris L. Young, R.N., Ph.D., has been a nurse for more than three decades and has seen the problem first hand in surgical and trauma units and behavioral units at major hospitals; in fact she s suffered from burnout herself. Now the healthcare coach, speaker, author, and self-described Nurse Doctor hopes to teach other nurses how to deal with stress and experience fulfillment in their work and personal lives and advise healthcare administrators about the problem. With this book, I want to coach nurses and I want to teach managers to be coaches, Young said. In Save the First Dance for You The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Patients, and Yourself, Young lays out in 10 chapters several practical and coping techniques she s developed for nurses facing the challenges of today s hectic healthcare workplace and demanding home lives. Using a dance instruction metaphor (a personal interest of the author), the book presents a 10-step program to reconcile the tensions between a nurse s calling to help and please others sometimes at expense of their own health and happiness. This book is not on how to change the system, but individuals, Young says. I wrote this book for nurses who want to redesign their day-to-day work lives, and rejuvenate the songs in their hearts and spring in their steps. Young s central premise is that nurses often put other people s needs first and their own needs last, and that can cause the nurs

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #571884 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Released on: 2006-10-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 215 pages

Review
Doris Young has given nurses a tremendous gift in her book, Save the First Dance for You. her message resonated in my heart and soul because I took ballet and tap at the young age of 8 years old. I have been dancing my way through life always thinking of others and very little of myself. now that I am a nurse of many years and with great wisdom, I plan to subscribe to the lessons Doris has given me. I started with tears in the first chapter and have finished with renewed spirit and direction. Doris, your book has truly warmed my heart and renewed my spirit. Every nrse should have a copy whether old or young. --Shirley Tate Gibson - President, Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives

Nurses are in the position of perpetual caring and giving of themselves. Young provides nurses with an important holistic prescription to protect and heal themselves from the spiritual depletion that can result. Save the First Dance for You is a wonderful journey back to the authentic self. Thanks for this important work and for providing me the opportunity to participate. --Teresa Haller, MSN, MBA, RN - President, Virginia Nurses Association

STRESS often interferes with our ability to be in transpersonal caring relationships. It can bow even the strongest and crack some under its pressure. Nurses and those in the Caring Sciences have the stresses of everyone else in the world plus the potential stress of serious injury to their personhood, plus to their patient, from even the slightest inaccuracy. They work with staffing shortages, requiring doing more with less. They work rotating shifts, double shifts, and return to work after 8 hours of rest to meet the needs of their patients, as well as their organizations. They re exposed to deadly diseases, accidental needle-stick, and body fluid splashes. NOW the healthcare coach, speaker, author, and self-described "Nurse Doctor" hopes to teach other nurses how to deal with stress and experience fulfillment in their work and personal lives and advise healthcare administrators about the problem. A view of nursing as a caring science helps to reframe nursing practice issues, whereby the nurse Self has to be considered as part of the professional practice plan. Caring science is an emerging new field that is grounded in the discipline of nursing and evolving nursing science. Transpersonal caring relationship moves beyond ego-self and radiates to spiritual, even cosmic concerns and connections. Transpersonal caring calls for an authenticity of being and becoming, an ability to be present to self and other in a reflective frame; the transpersonal nurse has the ability to center consciousness and intentionality on caring, healing, and wholeness, rather than on disease, illness and pathology. In Save the First Dance for You - The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Your Patients, and Yourself. Young lays out in 10 chapters several practical and coping techniques she's developed for nurses facing the challenges of today's hectic healthcare workplace and demanding home lives. Using a dance instruction metaphor (a perso --Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN

About the Author
Doris L. Young, Ph.D. is a nurse with an undergraduate degree in Psychology, a master s degree in Health Care Administration, a doctorate degree in Health Care Ministry and a Ph.D. in Pastoral Psychology. Dr. Young has been a nurse for 30 years and has served in surgical and trauma units and behavioral units at major hospitals. She is the past-president of the National Speakers Association of Virginia, and listed in Who's Who in Professional Speaking. A healthcare coach, speaker, and author, Dr. Young's mission is to help organizations inspire loyalty. Her goal is to control the high cost and quality issues associated with high turnover and retention in healthcare. For many years, Dr. Young has taught people within healthcare and other industries how to deal with stress and experience fulfillment in their work and personal life. As a nurse and nursing leader, Dr. Young has faced these issues personally. Her background and experience enable her to help other nurses and healthcare administrators address the problems of nurse dissatisfaction and burnout, and the broader concerns of turnover in the profession. She is, The Nurse Doctor.