Nursing

Who else wants to help nurses avoid burnout?

Are you concerned about how many nurses are struggling with the ever-increasing demands of the job? Are you worried about how many feel stressed and disheartened because they simply don’t have enough time to provide the level of care they’d like to? What if many of them quickly leave our wonderful profession because it’s all too much?

My name is Allie Wilson and I understand exactly how nurses feel because I am a Registered Nurse who burnt out herself. So to help, I’ve collaborated with the Royal College of Nursing, Australia and written a book full of all the advice I wish I’d had when it all got too much for me.

To produce What I Wish I Knew about Nursing I interviewed over 200 nurses, from all backgrounds and from all over the world, and asked them “If you could turn back the clock to when you just started in nursing and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?” Then, because I know how resistant young people are to being told what to do, I made sure that each interviewee’s wonderful insights were next to a slightly daggy photo of them in their younger days – complete with cape, gloves and ‘flying nun’ cap – just so all this wisdom doesn’t get too preachy or ‘holier than thou’.

Help them with the wisdom of other peoples’ experience

If you’re ready to help nurses hit the ground running and leap into the job with the wisdom of experience from a whole family of mentors, if you want to give them real advice from real nurses so they can cope with anything their day can throw at them, and if you’d love to give your nurses raw, moving and inspirational stories that will help them not just survive, but thrive and adore their job, then What I Wish I Knew about Nursing is just what you’ve been looking for.

What I Wish I Knew about Nursing is like having a mentor in your pocket or on your coffee table and should be required reading for anyone thinking of joining the profession.

Review in The College of Nursing magazine, Nursing.Aust

It made me laugh and almost cry! Congratulations, and thank you. This is just what nursing needs.

Liz Spaull,  National Workforce Planning & Development Manager, Ramsay Health Care

What a wonderful, wonderful book! What I Wish I Knew about Nursing should be on every student nurses booklist. It’s insightful, honest and tells it exactly how it is. It’s brilliant!

Sandi Waters-Lewis, RN

What nurses will learn from my book

When nurses read What I Wish I Knew about Nursing they will:

- discover little known strategies experienced nurses use to look at even the worst day in a positive light

- unlock 3 secrets to reducing stress by ‘leaving work at work’

- learn 5 practical lessons you must know when you’re just starting out

- uncover countless survival tips that will increase their ability to maintain motivation (and one of them is so easy they’ll be able to flick the switch in minutes)

- countless ways to cope with overwhelm and help them remember why they joined our wonderful profession in the first place, and the reasons why not knowing these skills will cause them to lose motivation fast

A totally unique solution

I realise there are lots of nursing books on the market, but this is the only one written for nurses, by nurses – and presented in a format that makes even the most cynical of us raise a smile and take some advice on board. The What I Wish I Knew books keep the advice poignant and raw while making sure it remains accessible and engaging.

Mentor in your pocket

Now nurses don’t have to spend the 12 years I spent being worn down by the demands of the job. They don’t have to spend the 2 years it has taken me to interview all the amazing people in What I Wish I Knew about Nursing. They can access all the incredible wisdom of a whole family of mentors in the 2 hours it takes to read my book.

I guarantee that every single nurse who spends the time to read this book cover to cover will get tips, strategies and inspiration they need to embrace their new career with an open heart.

All the best,

 

 

 

P.S. There are many text books, reports and white papers on how we ‘should’ nurse, but we thought it was time to give real nurses a chance to express, in their own words, what the profession means to them.

Produced in collaboration with Royal College of Nursing, Australia, What I Wish I Knew about Nursing is available here and from RCNA.