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Where does your patient care sit on the good, bad and ugly scale? How can you prevent your standards from slipping over time? Want to maintain a positive approach for longevity in your role? Any career in healthcare can become challenging and exhausting under the pressure of long shifts, repetition, expanding caseloads and high demand. Without regular reflection to refresh enthusiasm in caring for others, gradual disconnect and burnout become inevitable. Maintaining a motivated and compassionate outlook is as essential to providers as it is to patients in shaping meaningful and rewarding interaction. Reflective Rhymes for Patient Care is crammed full of pocket-sized reflections for doctors, nurses, paramedics, EMTs, midwives, mental health professionals, allied health services, educators and support staff. Ideal graduation gift for those new to healthcare Vital questions to provoke self-motivated accountability Perfect conversation starters for group based discussion Useful prompts in continued professional development A collection of fifty-two thought provoking paragraphs, one for each week of the year with space to make notes for next time around. This handy book will trigger a positive perspective on empathy, safety and satisfaction in any hands-on healthcare role.