Save the First Dance for You The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Your Patient, and Yourself

Using a dance instruction metaphor, the book presents a 10-step program to reconcile the tensions between a nurse's calling to help and please others sometimes at expense of their own health and happiness. This book is not on how to change the system, but individuals. Young's central premise is that nurses often put other people's needs first and their own needs last, and that can cause the nurse to wear out physically and emotionally. Chapters in the book cover such topics as: preventing burnout by taking care of yourself first; learning to be firm about your values and principles yet flexible about how to deal with people and situations; viewing all situations as opportunites for growth; setting goals and taking action; knowing the roles of being a leader and a follower; learning about yourself through relationships; how beliefs act as filters that create our experience; freeing oneself to have fun; being authentic; and "strutting your stuff." While primarily written for the nursing profession, other industries can benefit from Young's approch.Young, Doris is the author of 'Save the First Dance for You The Complete Nurse's Guide to Serving Your Profession, Your Patient, and Yourself', published 2006 under ISBN 9780977879007 and ISBN 0977879003.