Resilience In Health Care

Resilience is an individual’s ability to properly recover from stress or adversity. It is the process of adapting well in the face of trauma, tragedy or threats coming from many sources including family and relationship problems, health issues and workplace or financial stressors. This essay shows the concept of resilience from the perspective of the consumer and health care professional. Working in healthcare is stressful, and it takes a toll a persons physical, emotional and mental levels. To effectively care for others, you must be able to care for yourself, showing resilience.

In the health care environment, the concept of resilience is shown through the ability of a health care worker to deal with the many stressors that their profession

People who choose not to show resilience share in the risk factors that contribute to resilience. Low income poses as a risk factor towards resiliency, for many having a low income can prevent them from moving forward in their life and can avert them and their families from having the ability to overcome life stresses that may come in their way. For example, a single mother with a low income may struggle to demonstrate resilience to her children, as it may be tough for her to pay the rent of her small apartment and pay for their shopping with her little income. In the health care setting, health care professionals may have problems contributing to holding them back from showing resilience such as, the health care professional may have to care for a patient that is suffering from a similar illness to a person close to the health care professional. This may cause for the health care professional to ‘hide-away’ and not want to face their problems. A health care professional may also be having a tough time in their home-life and it makes it difficult for them to adapt to the stress and adversity of their

Resilience is a personal journey, one approach to build resilience may work for one person but it may not work for another, as people do not react the same way to different life events. All people have resilience but being able to build resilience is debatably at odds with the concept of resilience since resilience is a characteristic of oneself, although there are ways to enhance your resilience. There are certain lifestyle factors and support networks that help develop ones resilience such as, doing things that you, as the consumer, enjoy and “being physically active helps to improve resilience and decrease ones stress” (Lowinger, 2015). For any consumer it is important to show and strengthen their resilient characteristic, it helps to overcome stress and difficult