Column: Helping Others, Helping Ourselves

Health and wellbeing part 1: helping ourselves and others.

In the first of a two-part series on health and wellbeing, this article looks at how nurses can focus on their own health and wellbeing, and signposts resources to help them find coping strategies to prevent stress. Although many of the reference documents concerning health and wellbeing relate to the NHS themes from them, lessons learnt and suggested recommendations are relevant to anyone work...

Harnessing Benefits of Helping Others

Objective: Prior research supports the hypothesis that cancer survivors who help others face treatment experience a range of psychosocial and health-related benefits as a result of peer helping. This study investigates an expressive helping (EH) intervention designed to harness those benefits by targeting survivorship problems among cancer survivors treated with hematopoietic stem cell transpla...

Helping ourselves by empowering others--it's not enough to do no harm.

Carter Helping Others to Help Business ?

There has been substantial growth in the level of charitable giving by firms, with many corporations hoping to attract new customers through an increase in social responsibility. This paper investigated the effect of this increase in corporate giving on sales using a fixed effects panel method. An investigation for the years 2001-2007 found no significant relationship between corporate giving a...

Wounded warriors' perspectives: helping others to heal.

Ned Foote (Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, retired); Juan Arredondo (Sergeant, U.S. Army, retired); Jonathan D. Pruden (Captain, U.S. Army, retired). They have walked the walk and paid the price. A very high price. They are veterans who sustained major limb loss during the Vietnam or Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) conflicts. Their names are Juan Arredondo, Ned Foote, ...