Save the First Dance for You - The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Your Patient, and Yourself

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