University Healthcare Report: Role Concept and Time Management

This report, a final project for the HUCL1101 course, delves into the crucial concept of time management within the healthcare sector. The assignment examines the challenges healthcare professionals face in balancing work and personal life, emphasizing the negative impacts of excessive workloads. It analyzes a video on time management, highlighting key strategies for prioritizing tasks and reclaiming free time. The report connects the video's concepts to the healthcare system, stressing the importance of effective time management to avoid work-life imbalances. It also reflects on the author's personal experiences, demonstrating how the discussed principles can be applied to improve personal and professional well-being. The conclusion underscores the need for healthcare professionals to adopt time management techniques for an improved quality of life.

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Role Concept in Health Care
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
The term leisure, popularly known as “free time”, can be defined as the time spent by an
individual away from business, work, education and domestic troubles. Especially when
someone utters free time, it mostly refers to the time that one possesses out of his or her
professional work time. Now days, due to globalization, the work pressure on every sector, be it
private or government has got increased immensely. As a result the excessive workload, it
becomes highly difficult for professionals to maintain a healthy work life balance as well as to
invest time for self analysis. In the following paragraphs the methods that can be implemented in
order to gain control over one’s free time will be discussed.
Discussion
In today’s life it has become highly difficult for people to find out free time for
themselves as well as for their near and dear ones. This in turn is not only imposing negative
impact on their work-life balance but is also preventing them to discover themselves (Maxwell et
al., 2015). Discovering oneself as well as performing something that can enhance the quality of
life always may not be in the list of short time priorities. However, it is crucial to address them
for future accomplishment. The video titled “How to gain control of your free time?” has been
selected for this essay in order to solve the above mentioned issue. In the mentioned video, the
speaker, Laura Venderkam has discussed how we select our priorities and how we can control
our leisure time for self as well as things that are beneficial for us.
In this paragraph, the discussion has been focused on the important points that have been
emphasized in the video and the way this correspond to the course concepts (Kizilcec et al.,
2017). It can be clearly understood that the video has direct relation with the time management.

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In healthcare system, it is crucial for all healthcare service providers to understand the
importance of time management in order to avoid inappropriate work life balance. In this video,
the time management expert Laura have pointed out that majority of professionals drastically
overestimate their commitments each week, while underestimating the time they have to
themselves. The most crucial points of the entire videos are as follows:
When we say “we do not have time”, we mean that “we are not considering the work as a
priority.” Time is highly elastic, that is, it is not possible for one to make more time but time
posseses the potential to stretch itself for accommodating what one select to perform. In order to
correctly select one’s professional as well as personal priority, it is crucial to note it down ( How
to gain control over your free time?., 2018). It is crucial to break our priorities in into doable
steps. Since there is 168 hours per day, every individual can consider art least 60 hours in a week
for themselves. Instead of investing time on phone or TV, every individual should invest the
leisure time for something fruitful like reading an interesting book or spending time with the
family.
As a student, I can totally relate to the message provided through the video on a personal
level. Like majority of the students in this age of technology, I too like to spend my leisure time
either going through my social media pages or by watching web series. It was difficult for me to
extract time from my busy schedule for my parents or relatives. Besides that, I also found it
difficult for me to get adequate time to pursue my hobbies. This was imposing a negative impact
on my social life. After watching the video I understood that that I need to reset my priorities in
order to enhance my social life. Thus, I totally agree with the message that has been shared
through the above mentioned video.

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The topic discussed in the idea challenged my philosophies or beliefs as well. I was not
aware of the 168 hour concept (Panek, 2014). Prior to watching this video, I used to invest my
brief leisure for something which I do not consider as a priority. This video has made me
calculate my own working hours as well as my sleep hours in order to understand the hours that
are available to me as free time. For instance, I found out that I spend more or less 20 hours per
week for educational purpose and 20 hours for a side job. In total this is 40 hours. I generally
sleep 8 hours a night, which means a total of 56 hours for sleeping. Thus, I calculated that in a
week, I almost have 72 hours for myself which in can spent with my family. While, I, before
watching this video truly believed that I lack time to spend with my family, now, I believe that I
had set inappropriate priorities that were hindering my social life.
I, personally, have found the message highly crucial. As discussed earlier, due to globalization,
the work pressure in both government as well as private sectors have increased to a considerable
level. As a result, it has become highly difficult for individuals to find time for themselves as
well as their families. This is gradually deteriorating the personal life of the professional as well
as creating a barrier in their cognitive development. Therefore, I think that for contemporary
businessmen as well as professionals, it is highly crucial to learn proper time management in
order to enhance their quality of life.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that majority of individuals overestimate
their commitments each week, while underestimating the time they have to themselves. Effective
time management has the potential to change the thought process of the individuals in a positive
way. With the help of improved time management, people will be able to find out more time for

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their own as well as social life. Besides that, by implementing the techniques discussed in the
video, professionals will be able to enhance their quality of life to a great level.

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