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A practical and inspirational guide for healthcare professionals. Includes insightful information, stories, exercises and strategies to help care providers develop and sustain meaningful healing relationships with their patients. <more>
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Recognizing, Responding, Replenishing and Inspiring those that working in the health care and helping field
"This text by Donna Devlin is the epitome of the author – caring, insightful, thoughtful and full of bounce. In other words this is a wonderful work which every healthcare worker will enjoy and learn from." - Robert (Bob) V. Johnston MDCM, FRCPC retired Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medicine, Medical Director of Telehealth and Disaster Services, Chair of Medical Advisory Board, Chief Medical Officer and Senior VP, Member of Council of College of Physicians of Alberta, Senior VP of Patient Experience
"Donna Devlin's book, Magic Moments in Health Care, offers wise and heart-felt counsel that you will find deeply helpful whether you are just starting out in the health-care field or you've been working for decades. The stories of extraordinary empathy and bravery by the bedside of those who are suffering reveal the miracles that ordinary people can perform when moved by loving-kindness. Reading her book and contemplating the questions she raises will re-connect you with your original reasons for choosing a career helping those in physical and/or emotional need. Each of us as well as our loved ones will face illness in life; at those times may we all have care-givers--nurses, therapists, aides and doctors--who embody the approach taught so clearly in Donna's book.” - Lorne Ladner, Ph.D., author of The Lost Art of Compassion
"I have contracted Donna to deliver her "Magic Moments" workshops to careproviders in a variety of health care settings. Donna never fails to motivate and inspire her audiences with her messages that affirm the power and energy that each of us hold in making the journey of those we care for the best it can possibly be. There isn't a caregiver that won't appreciate these words of wisdom." - Kim Frache, Director Mental Health and Addictions Services, Alberta Health Services
"With the numerous demands of staff, it is easy to become immobilized by the routines and tasks of our day, to a point where we forget how to truly engage with those we work with and those we care for. As leaders in health care, we need to remind ourselves that creating an environment of quality service, requires more that offering standardized approaches to care. We must also create a culture and environment that touches the spirit of individuals. I've embraced the philosophy of this book and encouraged staff to look for the simple ways they can create magical moments, every day. The impact has been powerful and has created a cultural shift in attitudes and behaviors. One’s spirit truly does respond to kindness.” - Barbara J.P. Fredrich, Quality and Service Development Manager and former Continuing Care Centre Administrator, Carewest
"Your book is WONDERFUL!! Just as you exude so much energy and inspiration in all you do, this book captures the essence of the “Magic" that we all aspire to in healthcare and reminds us where to find it when it becomes lost ... as all magic tends to do when we forget to cherish it. It awakens the spirit within and reminds us of the reason we chose to enter the world of Healthcare in the first place...to create magic moments for those who need our help and in return gain magic moments that give us purpose and stay with us a lifetime. Thank-you for sharing these 'magic moments' and giving insight and inspiration to renew the 'magic moments' within me...within us all. I love it...what a wonderful message." - Stephanie Keys RN. BScN, Continuing Care Staff Educator, Carewest
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Donna is a contributing author in Awakening the Workplace Volume II.