Minding the Bedside: Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500525392)

Jerome Stone is a Registered Nurse with over thirty years in a variety of health-care settings, including pain management, hospice care, oncology, ICU, and research in neurology, and complimentary and alternative medicine. His research includes multiple-sclerosis research and investigations into the effects of compassion on cancer patients and the effects of prayer-at-a-distance on people with HIV/AIDS. He is a long-time practitioner of meditation, with an emphasis on the study of cross-cultural contemplative practices. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife Jill and their son, Noah. As well as being the author of the author of the book, Minding the Bedside: Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind, he also blogs on his site, Minding the Bedside, and teaches courses based on the methods presented in his book. Additionally, he has been trained in and teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He is a speaker on the topics of stress management, meditation, mindfulness and compassion, and can be reached through the blog for his book or at his personal website, jeromestone.com.