Nursing Our Healer's Heart
A Recovery Guide for Nurse Trauma & Burnout
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'...radically revealing and beautifully unfolding in its healing message to all nurses. The straightforward writing and illustrations, combined with depth of scholarship, bring the work and world of nursing to a new global community of wisdom for heart-centered caring-healing. Every nurse can heal from just reading this book, being mentored back to one's healing heart.' Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL (AAN) Founder Watson Caring Science Institute
The nursing profession is in crisis. Within a decade, the world will have just over half the number of nurses it needs. The global nursing workforce has experienced mass, complex trauma secondary to healthcare system inadequacies and a global pandemic. Traumatized and burned out nurses are leaving their roles or the profession in unprecedented numbers. Those who remain are stretched to or beyond their capacity. While system-level strategies aim to address this crisis, none of them consider nurse traumatization and its impact upon patient safety, outcomes, and quality of care. We cannot wait for health systems to prioritize nurse safety. Nurses can and must come together as a global community to heal through avoidable and unavoidable nurse-specific traumatization while partnering with healthcare leaders to usher in a new era of nursing.
This book, through an actionable framework, guides nurses in healing the traumas and hardships they've endured as individuals and nursing communities. Grounded in the sciences of unitary caring, integrative nursing, neurophysiology, and transpersonal neurobiology, this book supports nurses in restoring their healers' heart as they come together to address the deep trauma, burnout, attrition, and presenteeism that are central to the nursing crisis. Nurses will learn the language of their nervous system and how to navigate it as a foundational practice to support professional wellbeing. Each nurse will discover their unique innate care plan, which will guide their healing and co-healing with other nurses. By embracing the healing and practices offered in this book, nurses will learn how to support their nervous system regulation so they can thrive instead of survive in practice. Working from their healed scars instead of their open wounds, nurses can effectively lead sustainable organizational change and health care reforms that prioritize nurse safety and professional wellbeing.
About this Author
Dr. Lorre Laws is an author, healer, teacher, and integrative nursing professor who helps nurses who are experiencing burnout or traumatization -- often secondary to system inadequacies. Dr. Lorre guides nurses as they heal and recover together; moving from surviving to thriving in practice. She founded The Haelan Academy, a nonprofit organization to support nurses throughout their career. As an engaging, informative, and entertaining speaker, Dr. Lorre is a beacon of wayshowing light for nurses and health professions as they usher in Nursing 2.0, a new paradigm that prioritizes nurse safety and professional wellbeing. She lives in Tucson, AZ.
Reviews
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL (AAN) Founder Watson Caring Science Institute
'Nursing Our Healer's Heart is radically revealing, and beautifully unfolding in its healing message to all nurses. This work embraces a compassionate, philosophical and scientific invitation and guide for nurses to face and disclose the shadows we carry in our healer's heart. While presenting the status of the trauma realities nurses endure, illustrating with data ,which cannot be denied, Dr. Lorre Laws likewise opens space, and paves the way forward for healing limitations. The straightforward writing and illustrations, combined with depth of scholarship, bring the work and world of nursing to a new global community of wisdom for heart-centered caring-healing. Every nurse can heal from just reading this book, being mentored back to one's healing heart.'
Bonnie Badenoch, author of The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
'Lorre Laws' tender and wise book offers a clear path for nurses to receive the respect and nurture they need. Drawing on the emerging discoveries of relational neuroscience, she challenges the system to change in ways that can provide the support nurses need to thrive, and offers guidance for nurses to create communities of care as a sanctuary in the midst of so much pain and hard work. At this crucial juncture in healthcare, this is an indispensable book.'
Janet F. Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN
'Here is a book for every nurse who feels over or on the edge of burnout, alone, traumatized, and exhausted, but at a loss as to exactly why or what to do about it. Dr. Lorre Laws sees you, and has written from a depth of research, clinical experience and caring to help you to recover your healer's heart. The book is thoroughly grounded in nursing theory along with the latest developments in the sciences of wholeness and neuroplasticity to guide nurses to nurture, nourish, heal, and thrive in all aspects of their bodymindessence. It is a brilliant and beautiful work of the heart and I am delighted to recommend it not only to nurses but to anyone engaged in human caring and healing.'
Terrence D. Hill, Medical Sociologist, The University of Texas at San Antonio
'Institutions of medicine are hemorrhaging nurses while failing to adequately care for those who remain in the profession. While most discussions center around short-term hiring strategies to plug the holes of a sinking ship, Nursing Our Healer's Heart offers a long-term vision for healing the hardships and traumas of nursing. Lorre Laws has written a must-read book for those currently working as nurses, those who plan to become nurses, and those who were once nurses. Health care scholars will be captivated by an insider's honest reflections on the nursing profession.'
Mary Beth Ackerley, MD MD(H) ABIHM, Co-Founder of the International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness
'In this thoughtful book, Dr. Laws assists us in understanding the role that unresolved trauma plays in chronic illness. Her book artfully explores complex layers of trauma, many often ignored or overlooked, and provides a vital resource for anyone treating or recovering from chronic illness. She presents us with different modalities which can be used successfully for healing, and her intelligent use of diagrams makes grasping complex concepts easy. I strongly endorse and recommend adding this book to the library of anyone who wishes for a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of trauma.'
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