Trauma-informed Care for Nursing Education Fostering a Caring Pedagogy, Resilience & Psychological Safety - ebook

Trauma-informed care is designed to assist persons who have experienced adversity and focuses on change at the clinical and organizational level. Its goals center around prevention, intervention, and treatments that are evidence-based, encourage resilience, and enhance coping.

This textbook is designed to give a comprehensive overview of trauma-informed care to students and faculty involved in nursing care programs.

Key features:

· Explains the skill sets to assess and care for persons who have experienced trauma.

· Emphasizes key principles of trauma-informed care

· Includes the use of client-centered, person-centered, and resilience-based tools to deal with trauma

· Recommends trauma recovery from a positive psychology and post-traumatic growth perspective

· Utilizes a caring pedagogy intended to foster resilience and help offset the secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue experienced by student and practicing nurses.

· Communicates the value of fostering psychological safety, compassion satisfaction, and joy in work

· Includes narrative case studies and learning activities in all chapters to help the reader to actively engage with the subject matter.

· Presents self-care strategies to enhance physical and emotional well-being.

Readership

Students and trainees in nursing care programs (diploma, undergraduate and graduate levels)