"Minding from the Bedside - Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind" by Jerome Stone -- out now from Langdon Street Press!

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) October 19, 2011 --

Minding the Bedside - Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind (Langdon Street Press, ISBN 978-1-936782-46-8, September 28th, 2011, $16.95) focuses on creating a health care environment rooted in mindfulness, awareness, and compassion. Jerome Stone writes for nurses, health-care professionals, or people who care for friends or family. He offers techniques that caregivers or nurses can apply to every-day activities, including different types of meditation and mind-body exercises. Minding the Bedside helps individuals in health care develop a more focused and fine-tuned approach to their work, helping them to reduce distractions so as to become more present with their patients. Minding the Bedside aims to help individuals become better caregivers, and gives them the tools to build a better and more compassionate caregiver-patient relationship.

Author biography: Jerome Stone is a Registered Nurse with over thirty years in a variety of health-care settings, including pain management, hospice care, ICU, and research in complementary and alternative medicine. He is a long-time practitioner of meditation, with an emphasis on the study of cross-cultural contemplative practices, and on the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Jill, and their son Noah.

More information can be found online at http://www.mindingthebedside.com/

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