Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being

Denial is one of the best-developed coping refl exes in health careworkers, particularly in physicians and nurses. It exists on severallevels, and it is provoked by a number of different but related dynamics.Most of us in health care—in the profession of caring for patients—have thought of denial as a self-protective reaction, a shield against theemotional and psychic turmoil of the environment in which we work.And for physicians and nurses, where they work is essentially wherethey live.It is a well-worked and commonly described dynamic. It is alsooversimplifi ed in its construct and terribly underestimated for its impacton the caregiver’s personal well-being...
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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being