This essential guide equips nurses and allied health care professionals with the tools and knowledge for self-care, mindfulness and overall well-being to enable providing compassionate care for others.

Written by a diverse group of contributors who work within the nursing and allied health care fields, this book shares their real-life experiences, expert knowledge, insights and relational-centred practices. Across 11 chapters, the book covers the distinctive pillars of well-being: Physical (regular exercise, sleeping and eating well), Emotional (clinical observation, counselling, peer support, relationships) and Psychological (financial well-being and mental health).

These three pillars of self-care allow readers to address the importance of establishing relational aspects of caring, as a process that requires as much attention as professional practice expertise. For students and practitioners alike, this book delves into important self-care research and applications for healthy personal and sustainable professional lives.

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Sally Hardy is closely linked with health and social care, through working with individuals, teams and organisations, promoting practitioner-led inquiry and transformational change through evidence-based health care. Sally's work currently focuses on leading the Norfolk Initiative for Coastal and Rural Health Equalities (NICHE), Anchor Institute within the East of England. Sally's research embraces understanding what factors contribute to sustainable workplace cultures and effective partnerships across health and social care systems. Prior to this, she was Dean of the School of Health Sciences throughout the COVID-19 period. She has also been a non-executive director and continues to promote population and planetary health and well-being through her work internationally.