After the Shift Series · Book 1
After the Shift
A Nurse's Guide to Understanding and Recovering from Burnout
Burnout is an injury. It deserves a real response.
You still show up. Your patients are still safe with you. But the nurse driving home after handover may be running on something other than fuel and quietly wondering whether she is broken. She is not. This CBT-based guide gives burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury their proper names, then offers practical ways to begin repairing the damage on a twelve-hour-shift schedule.
Inside this book
- Why burnout is an occupational injury, not a resilience problem, and why the wellness webinar made you angrier
- Compassion fatigue, moral injury, and the cumulative effect of trauma exposure
- Triage without shame, boundaries without guilt, and thought records that quiet the 3 a.m. courtroom
- Sleep strategies for shift work, an after-shift airlock, and ways to fuel a twelve-hour day
- What your family may be seeing, and a simple weather-report script for talking about it
- When to seek professional help, including a clear answer to the license question
- The three doors: recommit, reshape, or leave, chosen deliberately and with evidence
Every chapter includes a real nurse's story, direct answers to the questions nurses ask, and a guide to the companion Nurse Burnout Recovery Workbook, which contains every exercise in fill-in form.
- Author
- Ellis Hartwell
- Series
- After the Shift Series · Book 1
- Written for
- after-the-shift
- Editions
- Paperback · Hardcover · Kindle
- Trim size
- 6 × 9 in
- Publisher
- Tsunami Reading
Reads well with
The Nurse Burnout Recovery Workbook
A CBT-Based Program for Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury, and Finding Your Way Back