Burnout To Balance: Ems Stress; Author: Hopson, Emma H.; Joint Author: Dyar, Jeff T.; Paperback

Author: Hopson, Emma H.; Joint Author: Dyar, Jeff T.
Paperback; Index
230 pages
Published: May 2000
Pearson Professional Education
ISBN: 0130078069

This indispensable self-help guide provides EMS professionals with practical and in-depth advice for coping with stress at work and at home, with proven techniques that will motivate them to personally take control of their stress, achieve a healthy life balance, and avoid job burnout.Presents chapters on escaping overload, finding the support you need, lowering stress at the station, killer job stress, leaders under stress, relationships, time and money management/organizational skills, assessing your career stress, self-assessment and taking control, and having a written career/life plan. Discusses street stress, relationship stress, pressures which result from politics in the workplace, personal financial concerns, time management, self-care issues, and career planning. NumFor any fire and EMS curricula and stress management programmes. Enriched with personal case studies, this authoritative text provides EMTs and paramedics with practical advice and self-help techniques for coping with stress and achieving a balance in their professional and personal lives.