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Stress and Self-Care

Taiwo Owoyemi University of Massachusetts Boston Health promotion and Teaching (NUR 212) Professor Linda Chiofar June 23, 2020

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STRESS AND SELF-CARE

Stress is the response of our body to the pressure of a situation or event in life. Stress can vary considerably between people and is based on the composition of our society's environment and genetics. Many of the common features that make us stressful include new or unexpected meetings that question your feeling or that feeling you influence a situation little. The resulting 'pressure' sense will allow us to drive situations like a marathon or talk to a big crowd that can be anxious or busy. When you have limited lifespan stress and many people can cope with such levels of stress without any permanent impact, we can quickly return to a state of rest without adverse health effects. Some people begin to feel headaches, nausea, and indigestion when they are stressed and behavior. Some people feel a lot, including anxiety, coldness, sorrow, anger, and so forth. Stress is the body's reaction in a nutshell. There is good stress and bad stress, and people will respond differently. They must address the apprehension of other prisoners, maladministration, and demanding calendars for corrective practitioners. They are particularly sensitive to health problems which, because of stress, are sometimes poorly treated. Examples of such problems include alcoholism, heart problems, and mental health problems (WAND, 2010). For a wide variety of factors, including high-stress levels because of long hours, a burden of responsibility for others, extensive mental, emotional and physical demands, and the nursing profession has been recognizable for a long time. Furthermore, every personal fight can add to a child nurse's stress, and the reality of daily trauma, disease, and death can erode the mental condition of a person and make him / her depleted. It is also important that nurses use coping strategies such as self-care and focus to help alleviate tension in nursing and improve healthcare. It can be done by respecting the environment, being alert, frequent breaks, sleeping well and healthy to eat. The transition from a nurse to a health professional marks the beginning of the

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production of adverse effects on the workplace. There is an increasing need to educate nursing students and professionals in the current problems of nursing staff to implement sound management strategies, leading to a more gratifying and fulfilling career and a positive outcome for nursing-patients. Some studies have shown that initial stress symptoms are seen and examined more carefully in graduate students. This suggests that all students in nursing should have programs to teach them the burnout and compassion of infants to better prepare them for their problems as professional nurses. "There can be a risk for such damage by clinical exposure," said Michalec, Diefenbeck, and Mahoney (2013), while educating students that if a link exists between clinical conditions, burnout, and fatigue of compassion as previous research suggests. Students can learn and prepare for the challenges that they face in the job because the root causes of burnout amongst health professionals are studied and understood more generally. There was proof of feelings of fatigue, insecurity, and burnout rates before graduation, which could trigger future problems. "It could be fertile for a student to transfer stress and fatigue to a professional school, where social, cultural and environmental factors stimulate the growth of these harmful ones," Michalec, Diefenbeck, Mahoney (2013) suggested that potentially motivating nursing burnout might also have a socio-cultural and environmental dimension. As each nursing student is from a different social and cultural background, it is understandable that the experiences of each individual differ in how they interact. The article suggested that education systems should include programs that will encourage students to transition quicker from students to professionals, to give them the skills they need to support themselves in their careers mentally and emotionally.

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Without internalizing their suffering and distress, it is almost impossible to look after others, and you can ignore the heavy emotional pressure. The interpersonal relationship between nurses and patients offers a unique opportunity to have a confident and convenient patient in the ability of the nurse to communicate honestly and to educate honestly. There's always a human dimension that allows the patient to consider his pain instead of just a treatment plan (GUISE et al., 2011). The fact that you are vulnerable to the struggles of others hurts deeply and hurts your soul and you have to be more mindful of the concerns of the nurses who face the distress they encounter in the workplace; that is why the patient who has been struggling with sorrow says, "You cannot do the job unless you are involved, but if you care, you hurt." A good result for the Health System will be that this critical issue of compassion and the burning of nurses will be better understood. Health professionals are not only vulnerable to mental weariness while employed. Those who serve in religious matters such as the clergy and missionaries may also lose the responsibility of bearing the suffering of others. This fight can lead nurses to become emotionally addicted, as they learned that it is better to remain neutral to offer greater care. Unfortunately, nurses are not even allowed to allow their personal experience or feelings to engage in therapy for the patient. Rather, they are advised to stay impartial to enhance the care of patients. This can be ideal for a certain level, but it can also contribute to the pain and distress of nurses who create an unequal divide between themselves and their patients. The negative consequence is that nurses do not treat their feelings healthily, and patients can view the infant as cold and remote. Francis (2013) and Willis (2012) described empathy as an 'internal neural reaction to others' signals and how we communicate with something else within ourselves through imagination' (as cited by Walker and Mann, 2016, p. 189). It will allow nurses to become empathic so that they can have higher rates of care by communicating between a nurse and a

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patient relationship because the emphasis is on what patients need. While it is very difficult to allow the suffering and sorrows of others to echo internally, it is a major step to offer those in need more personalized treatment. To ensure that the patients who are informed of the eventual outcome will get the best possible treatment, nursing students need to be completely open and recognize the need and communicate their patients' frustration so that they will share their pain. The reality is that, because of an unbalanced and patient environment, the unique nature of the care profession increases the risk of neglect to nursing health. According to (Walker and Mann, 2016) Self-care involves ability, conviction, autonomy, and promotion, especially through the personal knowledge, of individuals for their well-being. That is their unique culture and situation. Many people in the healthcare sector already know what their patients' self-care is and understand how important it is, but they don't do that themselves. This is why caregivers should encourage a good desire to function with their own health needs. (Cross, 2011) defined the major form of primary care is self-care. Health care and well-being mean accountability. Eating a healthy diet includes self-care. This includes exercise, relaxation, and the avoidance of toxic substances and conditions. Since nurses are aware of their wellbeing but do not take responsibility for their good, possible factors that function as obstacles should be addressed. Their ability to provide self-hospitality for a large part of their day-to-day lives is hampered, especially by the strain that patients face on their physical and mental needs. Nordgreen and Havik (2011) argued that care "were influenced by 'care duty' effects." Self-help and the use of self-help instruments appear to be overlooked” (as cited by Walker and Mann, 2016). It is reasonable to do more to support the nurses at their place of work to prioritize self-care. Given the difficulties, self-care actions are necessary to ensure their wellbeing is enforced by nurses.

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Include approaches to encourage nursing students to learn how to prioritize self-care in their lives as a student, in the hope that they continue to be a professional nurse. A further efficient method with many health benefits has recently been focused on healthcare workers to help prevent stress. The relationship between stress and illness is clear. Thus, people who stay in a constant state of distress are eventually at risk of chronic illness, mental illness, and patient care. When the caregiver does not handle himself as well as he can adequately care for others. (WAND, 2010) has noted the correlation between "long-term stress deteriorating, mental illnesses emerging, the prevalence of stress-related disorders (e.g., cardiovascular disease, GI, low back pain, headaches) and reduced immune function". Besides the risk of disease, a further branch is less patient care and satisfaction if the infant's physical or emotional discomfort is achieved. (Walker & Mann, 2016) argued that "our nursing code seeks to protect the patient and coworkers, but little is done or said to lead to our own emotional or psychological well-being." While the nursing profession usually does not promote reflection in practice, nursing staff can recognize their emotional feelings in an environment more acceptable to them. In the battle against the burden of treatment as a viable technology, treatment has recently been debated. (WAND, 2010) define attention as "to know about your body, acts, emotions, and the environment from moment to moment and pay attention to them." If you have the opportunity of admiring the bright colors of the sea, walking around to see the sights and sounds, or spending time with your family, it is important to relax at this moment. Bodhi (2011) explored the way Great Britain applied schooling, as a tool for improving understanding of people with psychological conditions such as anxiety and depression (as cited by Walker & Mann, 2016). This approach is developed to allow informers to develop healthy habits of workrelated stress as a practical application for combating diseases. The practice of "carefulness"

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would help nursing students to cope with the psychological burden they have when they spend several years in the field irrespective of their health. "We need to show sympathy for ourselves, to take care of what we feel, and often put others in front of us in nursing. Caregivers prefer to describe their ability, to use their emotions, to defend themselves" (as cited by Walker & Mann, 2016).

The mindfulness technique helps the health-care providers to "align and integrate

clinicians and emotional spaces" into their interactions with patients (Walker & Mann, 2016). A safer way for the nurses to escape emotional isolation is to become more self-aware, present on the job, and accept their feelings, as a means of resolving the difficulties of nursing. The alternative is to continually cover your thoughts and feelings by jeopardizing your job. (Van der Riet et al., 2015) conclude to help & protect the health of workers in the future and provide him or her with the instruments to examine and challenge his or her inner self about the tension faced in modern health today ("as quoted by Walker & Mann, 2016). There's a variety of sensations in human life. To understand correctly what in the nursing profession you see and hear, nurses should be allowed to reach their inner selves. Nurses experience frequent birth, death, impaired illness, and pain, which over time can affect their cognitive capacity, cause emotional and physical discomfort, and can interfere with their ability to provide patient care of quality. It is important to make the transition from a nurse to a nurse easier by arming students with an awareness that their health is as important as that of their patients. Probably, they are great nurses because they are happier people by taking the time to invest in their own mental or physical wellbeing (Allen & Molloy, 2017). Despite the pressures and demands of the workplace, it is vital to ensure that nurses adopt self-care activities such as exercise, adequate sleep, a healthy diet, and care as a strategy for the treatment of their emotional traumas from work and the high quality of health care that patients require.

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References Allen, L., & Molloy, E. (2017). The influence of a preceptor-student ‘Daily Feedback Tool’ on clinical feedback practices in nursing education: A qualitative study. Nurse Education Today, 49, 57–62. Bodhi, B. (2011). What does mindfulness mean? A canonical perspective. Contemporary Buddhism, 12(1), 19-39. Cross, S. (2011). The role of practice nurses in educating patients on self-care. Primary Health Care, 21(7), 16–19. GUISE, V., CHAMBERS, M., & VÄLIMÄKI, M. (2011). What can virtual patient simulation offer mental health nursing education? Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 19(5), 410–418. Michalec, B., Diefenbeck, C., & Mahoney, M. (2013). The calm before the storm? Burnout and compassion fatigue among undergraduate nursing students. Nurse education today, 33(4), 314-320. Walker, M., & Mann, R. A. (2016). Exploration of mindfulness to compassion, empathy, and reflection within nursing education. Nurse Education Today, 40, 188–190. WAND, T. (2010). Real mental health promotion requires a reorientation of nursing education, practice, and research. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 18(2), 131–138. The Healthy US Collaborative (2020). Stress reset. The Take Care Campaign

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