Robert J. Wicks - Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

Dr. Robert Wicks and Dr. Gloria Donnellys updated book provides timely guidance and invaluable, concrete strategies to better understand and prevent stress and the cycle of burnout. This book should be on all healthcare providers list of required readings as they prepare to face the rewards and challenges of our ever-changing healthcare environment.

Patrick C. Auth, PhD, PA-C, DFAAPA 2017 Physician Assistant Education Association, Leadership Development Awardee

I prescribe this go-to resource for healing professionals in Medicine and Nursing who entered into practice psychologically healthy and now feel damaged. Its a life jacket for all who are drowning in unrelenting stress wrought by COVID-19, the current machinery of corporate healthcare delivery, and individual life circumstances. Wicks and Donnelly expertly help readers to gain perspective into their unique situations and start their personal healing journey. If your passion for healthcare is fading fast, reach for this book to become revitalized.

Linda Laskowski-Jones, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CEN, NEA-BC, FAWM, FAAN

Editor in Chief, Nursing2020 Journal: The Peer-Reviewed Journal of Clinical Excellence

Health, Learning, Research & Practice

Burnout of healthcare professionals preceded the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has brought the problem front and center.Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practiceis a beautifully written book; a must read not only for all healthcare providers and their employers, but their relatives. This compassionate, concise text provides a clear blueprint for understanding why stress is a pervasive problem for medical and nursing professionals along with strategic solutions for prevention, endurance, and resilience.

Julie H. Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, FACP

Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Division of General Internal Medicine and the Morgan Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital

We are living in unprecedented times. Living through a pandemic, health providers have had to radically alter how they practice, for example, learning how to do telehealth overnight. This power-packed book should be read by all health care providers, whether they are administrators, educators, researchers or front-line staff. Secondary stress confronts us all and this book assists health providers to manage such stress.

Al Rundio, PhD, DNP, RN, APRN, NEA-BC, FAArN

Vice President for Scholarly Advancement/ Co-Editor-In-Chief for Practice

Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice

National Academies of Practice

brief, to the point, and practicala very valuable resource for any health professional working in todays healthcare arena.

(5 StarsHighest Rating)Doodys

Reading Dr. Robert Wicks Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is both a personal and professional pleasure... I particularly enjoyed completing the Medical-Nursing Secondary Stress Questionnaire and using my answers as a springboard for further self-reflection and as the basis for developing my own self-care protocol. I would urge physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to keep a copy of this wonderful resource with them at all times; I certainly intend to do so!

Anne Belcher, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

The technical and organizational pressures on those providing medical care today are often overwhelming. This book is a much-needed practical aid which can equip the caregiver with the insights for coping successfully with caregiver stresses.

Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics

Georgetown University

This power-packed book is a must-read for all professionals who are responsible for the health care of others... [it] provides insightful and practical self-care strategies to help us take better care of ourselves so we can be better at what we do and sustain our abilities to do so.

Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN

The Florence S. Wald Professor of Nursing

Director, Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care

Yale University School of Nursing

Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wicks, Robert J., author. | Donnelly, Gloria F. author.

Title: Overcoming secondary stress in medical and nursing practice :

a guide to professional resilience and personal well-being / by Robert

J. Wicks and Gloria F. Donnelly.

Description: Second edition. | New York : Oxford University Press, [2021] |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020036332 (print) | LCCN 2020036333 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780197547243 (paperback) | ISBN 9780197547267 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: PhysiciansJob stress. | NursesJob stress. | Medical

personnelJob stress. | PhysiciansMental health. | NursesMental

health. | Medical personnelMental health. | Burn out

(Psychology) Prevention. | Self-care, Health. | Resilience (Personality

trait) | Stress management.

Classification: LCC R707 .W535 2021 (print) | LCC R707 (ebook) |

DDC 610.6901/9dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036332

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036333

My mother-in-law, Dorothy Barry, believed that as a profession nursing is both honorable and dedicated to what is good in this world. Two of her daughters, my wife, Michaele, and my sister-in-law, Deborah Kibble, took their mothers beliefs to heart and became nurses. And so, it is to the three of them that I dedicate this book.

Robert J. Wicks

I dedicate this book to those practicing medicine and nursing who have worked heroically and tirelessly to care for patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gloria F. Donnelly

Arnold R. Eiser, MD, MACP