A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare looks at how to maintain wellbeing in today's challenging healthcare environments, enabling practitioners to make a positive difference to the care environment whilst providing compassionate care to patients.

Claire Chambers teaches on the Open University nursing and nursing associate programmes and is passionate about supporting students in practice and focusing on their excellent practice. She has previously led the community nursing and public health programmes at Oxford Brookes University and has practised as a health visitor and a nurse in a range of community and acute settings.

1.The importance of compassion and why positivity and resilience matters. 2. Why is compassionate care challenging and how can I overcome these challenges? 3.Why do I need to focus on my stress management in order to focus on compassionate care? 4.How can I increase my resilience? 5.How can I reduce negative thinking and increase my positivity? 6.How can I take a lead on compassionate practice, stress management, resilience and positivity in my team