to inspire nurses to care and enjoy their work

1. Healthy Nurses: Importance of Caring
for Ourselves
Presented by:
Adahlia Tagalag Basco, RN, MAN, Ed.D
Nurse Educator, NESD

2. Nurses will be motivated to have a break for
them to be more effective.
To emphasize that nurses needs to care for
themselves.
Learn some tips on how they do
self care.

3. Being
Healthy?

4. We nurses advocate healthy
lifestyle, we teach our patients
the tips and tricks of staying
healthy and at times we
compromise ourselves to the
service of others.

5. the sad reality is
nurses “accept”
health problems that
come from the
physical and
emotional demands
of the profession,
and while caring for
others often do not
care for themselves.
Facts About
Nurses
Every few years this joke
goes around, “Did you hear
about the body found
alongside the road?
They don’t know her name
but they know she is a nurse
because the back was
broken, the ankles
were swollen, the nerves
were frayed, and the bladder
was full.”

6. Nurses Forget their Most
Important Patients: Themselves

7. AS THEY SAY,
“when the going
gets tough, the
tough gets
going,”
TOXIC
UNENDING
TO DO LIST
STAFFING
CONCERN
NOT
WANTING TO
LET PATIENT
DOWN

8. Why it is important to maintain your
health?
• Prone to encounter
difficulty during their
change of schedules.
• Stress
• To be role model to our
patient.
• To provide better holistic
care.

9. Answer to
stress!!!
Self Care
Physical
Mental
Professionally
Emotional

10. Five Steps to Nurse Self-Care
Self Care
Assessment
Activity do you engage
How do you care for your
emotional life
Do you pay attention to
your spiritual needs?
Are you exercising, eating well,
going vacation
Doing things that move the
wellness needle in a positive
direction.

11. Five Steps to Nurse Self-Care
Diagnose a
Self Care
Deficit
Admit that you have problem
Examine how you do and
don`t care for yourself.
Level of burn out and the amount
of exhaustion experience in
relation to personal and
professional life.

12. Five Steps to Nurse Self-Care
Plan a course
of action
Deficit mode must be part
of action plan.
Exercise
Emotional
Nutrition and hydration
vacation
No matter what aspect of your life is under scrutiny,
there are inspired actions you can implement to take it
to the next level in relation to your health and
happiness.
S M A R T

13. Five Steps to Nurse Self-Care
Implement
the Plan
Based on your plan of
actions.
Example:
If your self – care goal is to
have more time in nature you
will set an achievable and
measurable goal.

14. Five Steps to Nurse Self-Care
Evaluate your
Progress
Evaluate your progress and how
you`re doing overall
If goals is too lofty, make
adjustments.
Evaluating and making changes is
what we do when working with
patients.

17. 1. Don`t be afraid to show your hobby
• Do you love music, perhaps
reading a book, or
drawing/doodling?
• According to a research,
having leisure activities for a
minimum of 20 minutes in a
week decreases the level
of fatigue.

18. 2. There`s comfort in your ritual
• Do things that suit you best, rather than talk
about the patients you have handled during
the shift – it’s just a way to add more to
your stress.
• Other ritual can be deep breathing,
pampering self and fixing your appearance
(for girls putting make up before and after
work helps).

19. 3.Be an adventurer! Start a new hobby
• Discover the artistic side of you.
• Learn arts or painting
• Show your talents and add new hobbies
REMEMBER
Learning
doesn`t have to
end after
nursing school

20. 4. Pamper yourself
• A day in a spa, massage center,
and/or yoga class helps
soothe those tense muscles, male
nurses can also enjoy these things.
• It is proven that an hour of
massage is equal to eight hours of
complete rest.

21. 5. Socialize with friends, colleague, family
• Hang out in a café, chat but as
a rule, don`t talk about things
that will give you stress, and
don`t think too much about
work.
• Go to gym, do some work out
inside your room.
• Nurses are innovative: try
something different

22. 6.Protect yourselves and others. Do personal
hygiene
• When is the best time to take a bath, before or
after your shift?
Taking a bath before your shift awakens your spirit
showering after shift helps to freshen and remove
any microorganisms that you may have come across
during the shift.
• During the your shift, perform the necessary
precautions and requirements to protect
yourselves.

23. 7. Maintain cleanliness in your work area.
• Cleanliness in the hospital and with the
medical professionals has always been a
focus for a lot of researches.
• Why do you think that it’s so difficult to
follow? Is it a problem with time?
• Nurses, being clean should never have
any excuse; we should be carriers of
health and not of diseases.

24. 8. Eat healthy and proper energizing foods.

25. When you practice self-care
Develop a fresh perspective for
yourself
Enhance your creativity in dealing
with challenges
Create a positive environment with
your attitude
Build self confidence
Balance and well-being
Career satisfaction
Health and vibrancy

26. Self Care Benefits
Patient satisfaction
Improved personal/professional
relationship
Improved self perception
Healing nature evolves within
Powerful presence
Integrity and dignity

27. it is a part of the
culture we have
cultivated
Why Nurses Continue to Experience Burn Out…
Caring
Inclusive
Circular
Selfless
Expansive

29. Why don’t we take better care of
ourselves?
Why don’t we take better care
of each other?