Facilitator Guide for Self-Care for New and Student Nurses, Second Edition - 2nd Edition by Dorrie K Fontaine & Tim Cunningham & Natalie May

About the Book

This second edition of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses offers readers multiple strategies to prioritize their own mental, physical, and emotional health.

Book Synopsis

This facilitator guide for the second edition of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses includes teaching strategies, classroom activities, and reflective questions to help instructors teach students about self-care tips and techniques. Its content parallels the activities in the Self-Care for New and Student Nurses workbook, providing you with a menu of classroom activities and assignments.

About the textbook:

As a nursing student, you're taught to expect a variety of challenges while caring for your patients and juggling competing priorities as you begin your career. And, though you may know better, your personal well-being can become the last thing you consider in your hectic student or new-nurse life. There is no better opportunity to explore and develop self-care practices than during your years as a student nurse.

This second edition of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses equips you to confidently face stressors now and in the future. No matter where you are in your nursing career, this book offers you multiple strategies to prioritize your own mental, physical, and emotional health. Authors Dorrie K. Fontaine, Tim Cunningham, and Natalie May showcase a group of strong contributors whose valuable tips and exercises will help you:

Find joy and a sense of mattering at workManage anxiety, loneliness, and depressionAddress imposter syndrome, practice self-compassion, and thrive during clinicalsCope and seek help with racial tensions, substance abuse, suicide risks, and other traumasSpot the stressors that lead to burnoutPrioritize sleep, exercise, and nutritionBuild a toolkit of self-care techniques, including in-the-moment practices for an ideal workdayDevelop a resilient mindsetEstablish boundaries

We hope that this book opens your mind to the value of self-care and its power to change the way you work, interact with others, and respond to adversity. This is such an exciting time. You are "meeting yourself" during these years of training and preparation for your nursing practice. You are a nurse. Our wish for you: Care for yourself fiercely.

Review Quotes

"The authors have created a brilliant, reader-centric, practical, powerful, and evidence-based guide designed for new and student nurses, yet effective for preceptors and faculty alike. Imagine a resource so engaging and effective you turn to it time and time again to inform and support your whole-person well-being."

-Teri Pipe, PhD, RN

Richard E. Sinaiko Professor in Health Care Leadership

School of Nursing

Core Faculty, Center for Healthy Minds

Distinguished Fellow, National Academies of Practice

University of Wisconsin-Madison

"This extraordinary book will be the voice in the ear of every young nurse who reads it throughout their career, sustaining them through the hard times and providing what it takes to be the skillful, compassionate nurses they dreamed of being."

-Bonnie Barnes, FAAN

Doctor of Humane Letters (h.c)

Co-founder, The DAISY Foundation

"This is an astonishingly rich and relevant text that truly should be required in every nursing program. If widely adopted, this text has the potential to transform the profession."

-Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN

Director, Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing

Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing