Personal Health: Factors, Strategies, and Professional Role

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal health, encompassing various aspects such as lifestyle choices, factors affecting wellbeing, and strategies for self-care and resilience development. It delves into the impact of these elements on the professional responsibilities of a nurse, emphasizing the importance of maintaining physical, mental, and emotional health. The report includes a detailed wellness action plan, outlining specific activities for physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, relationship, and workplace self-care. It also addresses potential obstacles and negative strategies to avoid, concluding with the positive impact of implementing the plan on overall wellbeing. The report highlights the interconnectedness of personal health and professional effectiveness in the healthcare setting, advocating for proactive self-care measures to enhance performance and job satisfaction.

Personal Health
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Factors and personal lifestyle choices which may affect personal health fitness and wellbeing
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Strategies for self-care and development of resilience...........................................................4
Personal health/fitness and wellbeing as well as its relationship to professional responsibilities
of a nurse................................................................................................................................4
Wellness Action Plan.............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Personal health is defined as the ability to take responsibility of own health through making
conscious decisions to stay healthy. It not only includes physical wellbeing, but also covers
intellectual, spiritual, emotional, social, psychological, economical as well as other areas of life
(Lamego, and Kiani, Masimo Corp, 2017). This project is based on development of wellness
action plan in order to determine strategies for self-care and resilience development. It also
involves thoughts and reflections on the way these influence the ability of an individual. it also
covers the discussion about relationship of personal health and wellbeing to professional
responsibilities of nurse. At last, a self-care plan is developed which includes activities that help
in taking care of oneself.
MAIN BODY
Factors and personal lifestyle choices which may affect personal health fitness and wellbeing
Life style is referred as the way utilised by individuals, groups and nations. It is the
characteristics of inhabitants of a particular region in specific place and time. It involves the day
to day function and behaviours of a person in job, fun, activities and diet. Health is highly
impacted by lifestyle factors. There are millions of people who follow an unhealthy lifestyle and
resulted to this the encounter many difficulties in terms of physical, emotional and psychological
health (Boll, Meyer, and O’Connor, 2018). One of the factor includes not getting regular and
enough sleep. If the individual is not getting adequate amount of sleep, then there are high
chances that their personal health and well-being affects. Not getting enough sleep may lead to
mental health issues. Sleep apnea is a disorder which greatly increased the risk related to health.
Apart from this, the another factor is not having balanced meals. Eating junk food and
unhealthy food leads to various health issues like obesity which increases the risk of
hypertension, diabetes, cancer, heart disease etc. which impacts adversely on the health and
wellbeing of individuals (Diem, and et. al., 2016). So, it is very much necessary to avoid eating
junk food in order to ensure a healthy and better life. In addition to this, drinking alcohol is also
developing ill effects on health. Addiction of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol is considered as
unhealthy lifestyle which results into various health issues. All these are the factors and personal
lifestyle choices which highly influenced the personal health fitness and wellbeing of
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individuals. So, it is very much necessary for me to ensure that my personal lifestyle choices
must be good so that I am able to live a healthy life.
Strategies for self-care and development of resilience
Self-care habits assist an individual to keep his or her mind and body primed to cope up
with situations which requires resilience (Kelly, Wills, and Sykes, 2017). There are some
strategies for self-care which help me in developing my resilience. These strategies are
mentioned below:
Make time for close relationships: strong ties with co-workers, family, friends and
community groups assist in finding emotional and social support which i require to bounce back
from whatever life throws on me. Spending time with friends and family, connect with co-
workers for walk, lunch or coffee etc. will assist me in taking care of myself and developing
resilience.
Following good sleep practices and healthy diet: Junk food, alcohol etc. depletes energy
and resilience. It is very necessary to avoid or limit them in order to stay healthy. Apart from
this, adopting good sleep practices by establishing bedtime routine is also very much important
to stay healthy emotionally, spiritually and mentally all over the day.
Practice relaxation techniques: the techniques such as mindfulness, meditation, deep
breathing, yoga etc. are widely used techniques for relaxation which can assist in improving
physical and mental wellbeing. This also help in staying away from daily stress, anxiety and
depression and living a healthy life and developing resilience (Raj, Lee, Garrity, and Newman,
2019).
Personal health/fitness and wellbeing as well as its relationship to professional responsibilities of
a nurse
Personal health and wellbeing is linked to the professional responsibilities of nurse. A
nurse has to perform several responsibilities while working with the patients and it is very much
necessary for a nurse to stay physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually well. Long hours
of work, shift work related to nursing, work overload can be stressful and leads to job
dissatisfaction and health consequences like sleep disturbances and obesity (Meyer, and et. al.,
2016). This makes it very much necessary for the nurse professional to take care of own self. If
the nurse professional is not healthy then they may fail to engage in healthy behaviours. Apart
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from this, the environment where nurse professionals work may also lead to poor health
behaviours. So, engagement of nurse in disease prevention and Health promotion is required
personally and professionally. The nurse leader in complex care environment should strive to be
active member who foster and promote self-care and wellness. So it is very much necessary for
me as a nurse to stay healthy as this directly impacts on my professional role and make me able
to perform my roles and responsibilities effectively in health care settings (Lynch, 2016).
Wellness Action Plan
Wellness action plan is defined as a tool that assist individuals to share what keeps them
well at work and why and when a person might become unwell (Khan, and et. al., 2018). The
wellness action plan is provided below:
Wellness Action Plan
Physical Self Care
For staying fit and healthy along with enough
energy to get through professional
responsibilities and commitments, the activities
which help me includes:
1. Developing a regular routine to sleep.
2. Using sick leave.
3. Aim for having healthy diet.
4. Go for a walk every day at lunchtime.
5. Get some exercise after and before work
regularly.
6. Take lunch breaks.
Psychological Self Care
The activities which help me to feel clear-
headed as well as able to engage intellectually
with professional challenges which are found in
work and personal life includes:
1. Engage with non-work hobby.
2. Keeping a reflective journal.
3. Turn off email and work phone after
working hours.
4. Seeking and engaging in exterior
supervision or continuously consult with
a more experienced co-worker.
5. Making time for relaxation.
6. Making time to engage with family and
friends.
Emotional Self Care Spiritual Self Care
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In order to allow myself for safely experience
complete range of emotions, the activities
include:
1. Developing friendships which are
supportive.
2. Go to the movies with friends or do
something else in which I enjoy.
3. Write any two good things which I did
each day.
4. Playing a sport as well as go outside for
having a coffee together with friends.
5. Keeping meeting with parents' or other
social group.
6. Talking to friend regarding how I am
coping with life and work demands.
This spiritual self-care involves having a sense
of perspective away from day-to-day of life. It
involves the activities:
1. Going on bush walks.
2. Doing yoga.
3. Go to temple / church / mosque.
4. Reflect with a closest friend for support.
5. Engage in reflective practices such as
meditation.
6. Listening to spiritual songs and videos.
Relationships Self Care
In order to maintain supportive and healthy
relationships, as well as make sure that I have
diversity in relationships, then the activities
include:
1. Prioritise close relationships in my life
such as with family and friends.
2. Reach to work on time and leave on time
every day.
3. Attending special events of my family
and friends.
Workplace Self Care
For ensuring safe care in work place, the
activities include:
1. Ensuring effective time management so
that all the activities can be complete on
time.
2. Take some time for relaxation in
between the work to reduce work related
stress.
3. Taking break of around five minutes in
every hour of work.
Overall balance
By ensuring to follow all these activities, the overall balance in physical, spiritual, psychological
and emotional wellbeing is maintained.
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What might get in the way?
All these activities needs to be follow appropriately in order to stay fit and healthy and develop
resilience.
What negative strategies do you need to avoid?
The negative strategies which required to avoid includes avoiding unhealthy lifestyle, having
unhealthy food, not managing time properly etc.
If you implement your plan, how might you feel?
By implementing the plan, I might feel happy and healthy as this plan will highly contribute me
in staying healthy and fit and developing resilience.
CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that personal health is very
important for an individual as it sharpens the memory as well as stabilise the mood of a person. It
will also help in lower down the stress, feeling positive regarding life, maintaining a healthy
relationship and experiencing sense of belongingness.
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References
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