Nursing Our Healer's Heart
A Recovery Guide for Nurse Trauma & Burnout
by Lorre Laws PhD RN
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Pub Date 1 Jan 2025 | Archive Date 19 Nov 2024
Collective Ink Limited | Lorre Laws, PhD RN
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Description
A gentle exploration of nurse-specific traumatization, which affects 96% of nurses, along with an actionable recovery plan for nurses to heal together as they begin to thrive instead of just survive in their practices.
The nursing profession is in crisis. Within a decade, the world will have just over half the number of nurses it needs. The global nursing workforce has experienced mass, complex trauma secondary to healthcare system inadequacies and a global pandemic. Traumatized and burned out nurses are leaving their roles or the profession in unprecedented numbers. Those who remain are stretched to or beyond their capacity. While system-level strategies aim to address this crisis, none of them consider nurse traumatization and its impact upon patient safety, outcomes, and quality of care. We cannot wait for health systems to prioritize nurse safety. Nurses can and must come together as a global community to heal through avoidable and unavoidable nurse-specific traumatization while partnering with healthcare leaders to usher in a new era of nursing.
This book, through an actionable framework, guides nurses in healing the traumas and hardships they’ve endured as individuals and nursing communities. Grounded in the sciences of unitary caring, integrative nursing, neurophysiology, and transpersonal neurobiology, this book supports nurses in restoring their healers’ heart as they come together to address the deep trauma, burnout, attrition, and presenteeism that are central to the nursing crisis. Nurses will learn the language of their nervous system and how to navigate it as a foundational practice to support professional wellbeing. Each nurse will discover their unique innate care plan, which will guide their healing and co-healing with other nurses. By embracing the healing and practices offered in this book, nurses will learn how to support their nervous system regulation so they can thrive instead of survive in practice. Working from their healed scars instead of their open wounds, nurses can effectively lead sustainable organizational change and health care reforms that prioritize nurse safety and professional wellbeing.
A Note From the Publisher
Dr. Lorre founded The Haelan Academy, a nonprofit organization where nurses across the globe can come together in a safe and nurturing virtual space to share and be supported in their healing journeys together. She is an informative and entertaining keynote speaker and retreat leader who educates and inspires. Dr. Lorre has published numerous scholarly articles and has presented her work to national and international audiences.
Dr. Lorre is currently based in southern Arizona USA where she enjoys the love of family, friends, and community. She enjoys farm-to-table cooking, hiking, weight training, yoga, and a myriad of healing arts, practices, and traditions. She is attuned to her healer’s heart and its calling to be of service to the global nursing community. She lives in alignment with her overarching mission: “It’s not necessarily how I make a difference; I just want to be certain that I do.”
Advance Praise
Nursing Our Healer’s Heart is radically revealing, and beautifully unfolding in its healing message to all nurses. This work embraces a compassionate, philosophical and scientific invitation and guide for nurses to face and disclose the shadows we carry in our healer’s heart. While presenting the status of the trauma realities nurses endure, illustrating with data ,which cannot be denied, Dr. Lorre Laws likewise opens space, and paves the way forward for healing limitations. The straightforward writing and illustrations, combined with depth of scholarship, bring the work and world of nursing to a new global community of wisdom for heart-centered caring-healing. Every nurse can heal from just reading this book, being mentored back to one’s healing heart.
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL (AAN) Founder Watson Caring Science Institute.
Lorre Laws’ tender and wise book offers a clear path for nurses to receive the respect and nurture they need. Drawing on the emerging discoveries of relational neuroscience, she challenges the system to change in ways that can provide the support nurses need to thrive, and offers guidance for nurses to create communities of care as a sanctuary in the midst of so much pain and hard work. At this crucial juncture in healthcare, this is an indispensable book.
Bonnie Badenoch, author of The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships.
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781803413785 |
PRICE | US$21.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 432 |
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