Self-Care Assessment Self-care is a critical component, it is the activities individuals and community members undergo having the primary intention of enhancing the health of themselves, overall preventing illnesses, disease, and restoring health. It is important to understand that self care is active and powerful in maintaining an optimal level of health. A person’s overall health includes physical, mental, emotional, relationship, choices, and spiritual components of well-being (McCoy, 2013).
Self care is extremely significant in nursing. It shows us how important holistic nursing is, and how it effects each person individually. Classifying self care as a broad category, makes it hard to treat yourself and others, but depicting weaknesses, and improving them can help with the overall wellness and health of people. An example of this would be anxiety, this is part of the emotions and mental component (American Holistic Nursing Staff, 2016). As we know, anxiety can play a critical role on a person’s health, overall tightening muscles in the throat, the liver producing excess amounts of cortisol leading to more glucose, and also can cause the skin to have problems with blood flow throughout the body leading to serious complications (Holmes,
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Stated earlier, your self assessment is split into numerous categories. During this assessment, you rated yourself in categories to determine your level of self awareness. Scoring between 14-20 shows that you are aware of the important areas in my life, whereas scoring below a 14 shows areas that could be improved to provide an optimal level of health and self awareness (Dossey & Keegan, 2009). During this assessment I scored a 15/20 in physical, a 10/14 in mental, 11/16 in emotions, 12/16 in relationships, 15/16 in choices, and a 14/14 in
The conceptual model guiding this paper is A Middle-Range Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness. The theory defines self-care as a process of maintaining health using health promoting practices and management of illness. It emphasizes that self-care should be performed in both healthy and ill states. In addition, the theory further emphasizes that it is imperative for every individual to engage in some level of self-care from day to day by making informed food choices and rational healthy living styles. An individual in stable condition can maintain health without the need of moving into illness care. However, after an ill and illness management
“Nursing is the process by which the nurse seeks to understand his or her client’s unique model of the world and try to help a person with their self-care activities in relation to their health”( Sheila, 1990, p. 3). It is the intervention or the plan that a nurse or a health care provider and a patient implement in order to return to wellness. I am a nurse who is very kind and caring. I allow my patients to just sit and talk about their feelings, letting them know that they will never be judged. Through trust, my patients accept their treatment in order to get well and go
Nursing is a demanding career where we often work with patients who have experienced severe trauma and are in a state of crisis. We are taught to care for these individuals and we often forget to care for ourselves. Nurses are at risk for developing vicarious trauma or secondary trauma. Self-care is vital to personal health, to sustenance to continue to care for our patients, and professional development. Nurses are often reluctant to take the time required to care for themselves or they might have trouble finding appropriate self-care activities that are easily assimilated into their lives. Self-care benefits both nurses and patients, by practising self-care nurses can better embody their role as exemplars for health promotion (Fraser, Mills, & Wand, 2015). This paper defines secondary trauma stress and the importance of self-care. The purpose of the paper is to deepen the author’s understanding of effective self-care planning and identify strategies to promote wellbeing and self-care.
I pictured a nurse as just caring for a patient’s physical health and giving them prescribed medications. After practicing as a nurse I have developed a whole new sense of the term. Nursing encompasses the patient’s care. A nurse is there from the moment a patient steps foot into an Emergency Room until they are discharged home. Then they may still be involved in their care as a Home Health Nurse. We treat every aspect of the patient as a whole. Holistic nursing is based on healing the whole person. This practice recognizes that a person is not simply their illness. Holistic healing addresses the interconnectedness of the mind, body, spirit, social, cultural, emotions, relationships, context, and environment (Petiprin, A., 2016). All of these aspects combine to create the person, so in order to heal the person, the holistic nurse looks at all aspects and how they can affect the patient's health (Petiprin, A.,
The Theory of Self Care she includes; Self care as the activities that we all individuals perform to maintain life our health and well-being. Self Care Agency as our ability to engage in our care based on our developmental state and life-socio-cultural orientation as well as resources available. This part also includes the therapeutic self care demand, means of all the actions to be performed for a period of time to meet self care requisites using methods of operations and actions. Lastly she mentioned that self
Holistic nursing focuses on promoting health and wellness. It is care that is based on the theory of a balance between the body, mind and spirit. Its goal is to heal the body person as a whole. Holistic assessment is a practice that is specialized on nursing knowledge, theories, expertise and intuition to guide nurses in becoming therapeutic partners with their patients. It recognizes and gathers information about the totality of the human being, the interconnectedness of body, mind, emotion, spirit, socio-cultural, relationship, context, and environment. This paper is based on a holistic assessment of a patient from my job. A 72 years old Caucasian.
Being healthy in body and mind is the core of personal wellness. Getting to that point though is a process and it takes deliberate actions to make it happen. It requires choosing which behaviors will help and which ones won't. It requires making decisions every day that helps take a person to a better state of body and mind health.
According to the Healthy People Database, in 2010 the aging population was estimated at 40 million, this number is expected rise to nearly 70 million by the year 2030 (National Center for Health Statistics, 2000). At the forefront of health concerns for this aging population will be the intervention, management and treatment of chronic diseases. This increase in both this specific population as well as the required medical care will place a significant amount of stress on an already distressed healthcare system, which in turn will affect the availability of recourses and costs. Including patients in their self care with strategic health promotion such as encouragement and education geared towards specific socioeconomic groups will be more cost effective and beneficial in the management of chronic disease. Studies indicate that patients involved in self management of disease processes often have better patient outcomes.
... Through the demonstration of these values on a daily basis, the nurse is able to not only take better care of his or her patients, but is also able to take care of his or herself. Through self-care, the nurse is able to better understand the phenomena of the client, and is able to provide better client-centered care.
One of the theories of nursing is Dorothea Orem’s self-care theory, also called the self-care deficit theory. Nursing theories are important for several reasons. The profession is strengthened when knowledge is built on sound theory (Black, 2014). Theory is important for reasoning, thinking, decision-making, and supporting excellence in practice (Black, 2014). Dorothea Orem’s theory is a conceptual model that provides a structure for critical thinking in the nursing process (Black, 2014). A conceptual model provides a comprehensive and holistic perspective of nursing (Black, 2014). Orem published her theory in 1959 and continued to develop her model, eventually formalizing three interrelated theories: theory of self-care, theory of self-care deficit, and theory of nursing system (Black, 2014). The focus of Orem’s model is the patient’s self-care capacity. The process helps to design a nursing process specific to each patient that will provide for the self-care deficit of the patient (Black, 2014). Self-care deficits exist when the patient has limitations and the self-care requirement is greater than he patient’s capacity (Manzini & Simonetti, 2009).
Robinson, S. B., Weitzel, T., & Henderson, L. (2005, November/December 2005). The Sh-h-h-h Project. Holistic Nursing Practice, 19(6), 263-266.
There are three primary concepts in the SCDNT. The concepts are self-care, self-care deficit and nursing systems (McEwen & Wills, 2011). In addition, authors McEwen and Willis breaks down Orem’s self-care theory with several requisites. They are universal, developmental, health deviation and therapeutic (McEwen & Wills, 2011). Plus, concepts of deliberated action and product of nursing are defined.
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In order to lead a healthy lifestyle, it is essential that individuals constantly monitor their health. This involves not only physical, but also mental and emotional aspects of the body’s functioning, as they relate to the home, school, work, and leisure environments. If necessary changes are made sooner rather than later, then a stable, balanced and healthy lifestyle will be more consistently maintained. In fact, the World Health Organization says being healthy is feeling that there are few physical or emotional impediments to doing things in your life that you would like. For example, there are many people who are suffering from chronic illnesses who are healthy because they are able to maintain their creativity and vivacity when others cannot. It is evident that self-awareness enc...
Self-care is a necessary practice in everyone’s life. This practice allows people to relax and replenished themselves. The first time I heard of this term was in during one of my social work classes. As we began to discuss self-care it became clear, that without proper self-care people, not just social workers are doing themselves a disservice. Self-care encompasses more than general rest. Self-care deals with emotional wellbeing, good health and spiritual wellbeing. All of these areas are key to having good self-care. The reading provides a good description self-care, it stated that self-care is achieving an equilibrium across our personal school and work lives. Achieving equilibrium in my personal life will only increase my ability to support and help others.