  Unhelpful Beliefs in Health Professionals
Caring for cancer patients can often be a confronting experience for nurses and other health care professionals. If health professionals have negative thoughts, these thoughts can often influence their ability to work proficiently within their health care environment. This fact sheet outlines eleven common misconceptions, so that these thoughts can be identified and resolved.
Included in the fast fact sheet:
Issues surrounding
- acceptance and value;
- disastrous consequences;
- work-related stress;
- heavy work loads, etc.
This fact sheet is sourced from Ausmed Publications' textbook: 'Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A health professional's guide to what to say and do', editors Dr Jemma Gilchrist & Dr Katharine Hodgkinson, (2008) chapter three: 'Thriving as a Health Professional', author Dr Jemma Gilchrist.
Author: Dr Jemma Gilchrist
Jemma Gilchrist is a senior clinical psychologist with clinical experience in psycho-oncology. Since 1999 she has worked in two separate tertiary oncology services providing psychosocial care to adults with a wide range of cancer diagnoses as well as their families and carers. Jemma has experience in educating other health professionals on the role of psychosocial support and interventions in the oncology setting. In addition she is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney and provides clinical supervision to clinical psychology interns at master's level. She completed her doctorate in 1995 in the area of children's eyewitness memory, and has published in the areas of interviewing children about stressful events, the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and postnatal depression. She has longstanding interest in the impact and treatment of anxiety in the medically unwell.
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