A book for all nurses, but especially those who suffer from job dissatisfaction, compassion fatigue, moral distress, or burnout. Told from a first-person perspective, the work is based on research and is designed to provide practical steps for the nurse or nurses reading the book.

As relevant today as it was when the first edition was published in 2012 - likely even more so after the devastation of COVID 19 - Dr Todaro-Franceschi delves deeper into issues surrounding professional quality of life for nurses and the intricate connection to calibre of care and healthcare outcomes.

Compassion has become a prominent issue in health policy and practice and the recommendations of the Francis Report and the Berwick Review emphasised the need for compassion in care.

Compassion and caring are at the heart of nursing but what does that mean in practice? This text uses real-life narratives, case studies and activities to demonstrate how you can develop the empathy and communication skills you need to create effective, compassionate and caring partnerships with patients, families and colleagues.

A groundbreaking reference for palliative care nurses, this provides realistic and achievable evidence-based methods for incorporating compassionate and humanistic care of the dying into current standards of practice. It builds on the author's research-based CARES Tool, a reference that synthesizes five key elements demonstrated to enable a peaceful death as free from suffering as possible.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards, this book joins the dots between the biological, socioeconomic, psychological, and practical drivers (among others) that add complexity to care. Chapters cover all four fields of nursing across primary, secondary and voluntary sector settings, with case studies and activities illustrating what working with people living with complex health needs entails.