HUCL1101 Project: Role of Time Management in Healthcare Settings

This report examines the importance of time management in healthcare, drawing upon Laura Vanderkam's insights on prioritizing daily activities for both personal and professional success. It highlights the concept of time as elastic, emphasizing the need to identify and eliminate time-wasting activities. The report discusses advanced planning, setting priorities in career, relationships, and self-development, and applying these strategies to academic life. It acknowledges the challenges in implementing time management and encourages a shift in perspective to prioritize constructive work and self-improvement. The analysis concludes that effective time management is essential for self-management, improving both physical and mental well-being by prioritizing individual needs and promoting a balanced lifestyle.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Importance of Time management....................................................................................................3
Importance for Time management mentioned in the video.............................................................3
Application of Time management in personal life..........................................................................5
Challenges imposed by Time management.....................................................................................5
Importance of Timemanagement described in video.......................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference.........................................................................................................................................8

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How to gain control of free time
Introduction
Time management is considered to be one of the essential skills of daily requirementthat
helps us to properly arrange all daily activities on the basis of individual priority. For the current
Report, we are choosing the video of Laura Vanderkam, who provides essential information and
techniques that can be implemented in daily life for smart time management planning.
Hence, in the given report it will be possible to gain the skills of effective time
management that are needed for successfully completing all important task of personal and
professional life.

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Importance of Time management
Modern day people are busy with various form of activities, in both professional and
personal life of there are several sources of engagement mostly due to technological revolution.
In the given video the speaker has highlighted about the issue that in most of the cases many
people are not able to provide time for essential activities of life that can include spending
quality time with family and friends (Hörning et al., 2018).
As we are not successfully able to prioritise each of our daily activities, most of the
people are not able to deal with the issues in personal and professional life (Vanderkam, 2018).
Due to various forms of negative engagements with technological Gadgets and other
distractions of daily life, we lose a significant period of our daily weekly hours. The teachings
that have been provided in the video will help us to change our level of consciousness about time
management and understand our priorities in everyday life.
Importance for Time management mentioned in the video
The speaker has conducted essential research in her career about ways that can be
implemented in daily life for dealing with smart time management practice. The very basic
concept that has been given power focus in the video is the find that time is an elastic and the
quality of the same depends upon individual’s choice on the way they want to spend it. Due to
higher level of negative engagement in our daily life, most of the people or can get distracted in
useless activities that ultimately causes loss of time.
Speaker of the video has conducted essential research by collecting data about everyday
human life, which helped her to identify all major source of time wastage. Out of 168 hours in a

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week and average human get nearly 70 hours even after doing 8 hours per day of work
(Vanderkam, 2018).
The speaker however emphasized on the fact that busyness is highly relative term. If we
are strongly determined to find out time in spite of our daily routine with proper time
management, we can easily cope up with all difficulties. The personal preference plays an
important role in deciding upon the Time management plan.
In order to properly implement the time management plan, it is important to have
advanced planning. For this successful implementation it is essential to review the past activities
of an individual, which will help them to identify all forms of mistakes that are being conducted.
One of the important parts of deciding on the Time management plan is to set up
priorities (Vanderkam, 2018). Within the given video the speaker has given wonderful example
of broken water heater, where a person is forced to spend several hours in repairing the broken
water pipe. Hence, in spite of the busy schedule we often tend to devote time in essential
activities, which were not even planned earlier.
As fixing the water heater, in spite of being an accident was worthy of giving priority due
to its importance in the context of our life. The time management planning we need to keep our
priorities at the top most position within the schedule. This can only be implemented by
advanced planning.
The speaker has provided the Example of Friday afternoon, which is regarded as the best
time to plan in advance for the following week. The priority list can be categorised into 3 parts
which includes career, relationship and self-development.

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Every week we need to devote equal time in all the three elements within our time
management schedule. It will also be possible to categorise all the priorities of our daily life
according to their impact.
The exact planning will depend upon individuals personal choices, nevertheless it is
essential to ensure that we give proper importance to all our daily activities by investing
sufficient time in each of them.
Application of Time management in personal life
Being an academic student, proper utilisation of time is highly crucial in my self-
development process. It is important to note that due to various form of destruction like use of
electronic gadget, people of my age spend huge amount of time, which in most of the cases have
little or no benefit.
Proper advanced planning which time management schedule can be Highly Effective for
a student, which will help them to devote time in all essential activities besides their academic
duties. Here also, the priority of individual plays an important role in making of time
management plan (Hörning et al., 2018).
Time management planning can be made according to individual preferences; for
example, any students main plan in advance to spend more amount of time in their passion
activities as they are free from the academic duties.
I do strongly agree with the message of the video as in longer run the strategies that are
mentioned will help to reduce the issue of lack of time in the daily busy schedule.
Challenges imposed by Time management in the video
The speaker in the video emphasized on the fact that even if an individual does spend
doing work, then also there are enough time left involved in other essential activities. The

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speaker has therefore challenged about the elements related to our daily life style, where we
waste lot of time in doing unnecessary acts.
It is therefore important to change the perspective about time management and other
activities that we perform in everyday life, which can help an individual to spend time in
constructive work. In everyday life we often complain about not having enough time to devote in
essential activities like meeting up with friends or spending quality time with family.
The implementation of time management plan has not violated any of my personal belief
and philosophies about my academic career. The ideas that are presented in the video have
challenged the traditional methods of time management. It encourages the viewers to set up
priorities according to their personal lifestyle habits.
Importance message described in video
The message that has been given by the speaker in the video is clearly one of the
powerful instruments of planning that can be implemented by every individual to improve upon
their self-management plan. The video therefore sends powerful motivational message.
Implementing proper time management can be challenging due to the fact that most of us fail to
identify our priorities in professional and personal life. Nevertheless, by utilising the techniques
of the video, we can easily change your perspective of thinking for all simple daily activities that
we perform.
The speaker within the video has also emphasize the fact that in spite of individual
struggle in personal and professional life, it is possible for each one of us to prioritise work and
find out time for our self-improvement. This is more effective for career building student, which
will help them in enhancing their understanding level with high end knowledge which may or
may not be outside their Academics.

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The message in the video encourages the audience to take extra initiative in determining
and managing their daily work life routine. This can be however, challenging for most of the
people as they are not used with the techniques of time management.

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Conclusion
In the concluding note it can be said that time management planning given prior
importance in the given video, which has been considered as an essential part of self-
management planning.
With Proper self-improvement plan it is possible to improve both physical and mental
health of an individual. The most important factor that has been discussed in the current report is
about giving priority depending upon individual needs. This can easily help us to implement
effective time management plan in everyday life.

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Reference
Hörning, K. H., Gerhardt, A., & Michailow, M. (2018). Time pioneers: Flexible working time
and new lifestyles. John Wiley & Sons.
Vanderkam, L. (2018). How to gain control of your free time. Ted.com. Retrieved 7 April 2018,
from
https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_vanderkam_how_to_gain_control_of_your_free_time/
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