Lifestyle and Health Promotion Topic
Abraham Lincoln is known for saying that it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that matter. To achieve the maximum life in your years, everyone must work on being in the best shape possible holistically. This can be accomplished by observing what changes are needed in regards to behaviors and lifestyle. This post will discuss the writer’s personal healthy lifestyle practices, other healthy lifestyle behaviors that the writer wants to incorporate in daily living and the health promotion lifestyle findings in nursing or healthcare personnel.
Current Personal Health Promotion Lifestyle Activities
There are a variety of healthy lifestyle practices of this writer that can fall into the …show more content…
My addiction is food. I was raised not to feel and to eat in regards to any situation. As a result, it has taken me the majority of my life to change from living to eat to eating to live and to change my relationship with food into a healthy one. As a result, there are a variety of healthy lifestyle behaviors and choices that I practice in regards to nutrition. I always start my day with breakfast, eat every two to three hours, and stop eating two hours before bedtime. I am able to avoid fast food and go out to eat once a week by making a weekly meal plan and preparing meals ahead of time. When grocery shopping, I always bring grocery list, a full stomach, and focus on the perimeter of the store where the less processed food is located. I take my weight; divide it by two, and that is number of ounces of water I drink daily. Plus, I don’t smoke, drink soda, or drink alcohol. Finally, I increase my vegetables, limit carbohydrates and sweets, eat nuts for snacks, and eat fruits for …show more content…
As a result, to attract new and maintain the current nursing staff, employers need to work on educating the nursing staff on health promotion and improving lifestyle choices to improve satisfaction in nurses. The quality of care patients receives and nursing turnover has a direct correlation with the stress that nurses are experiencing and how this stress is dealt with. Most nurses have poor self-care practices and deal with stress by self-medicating with food, alcohol, or smoking (Markwell, Polivka, Morris, Ryan, & Taylor, 2016). As a result, the top three preventable health risks that health care workers face are obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity. Obesity has been related to working night shift, long work hours, job strain, and job insecurity. Secondly, physical inactivity when off work is found in healthcare workers that have low participation in decision making at work and frequent involuntary overtime. Smoking is found in those individuals with high job demands, high job strain, low job control, working nights, and low social support from coworkers and supervisors (Miranda, Gore, Boyer, Nobrega, & Punnett,
Abraham Lincoln is known for saying that it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that matter. To achieve the maximum life in your years, everyone must work on being in the best shape possible holistically. This can be accomplished by observing what changes are needed in regards to behaviors and lifestyle. This post will discuss the writer’s personal healthy lifestyle practices, other healthy lifestyle behaviors that the writer wants to incorporate in daily living and the health promotion lifestyle findings in nursing or healthcare personnel.
Current Personal Health Promotion Lifestyle Activities
There are a variety of healthy lifestyle practices of this writer that can fall into the …show more content…
My addiction is food. I was raised not to feel and to eat in regards to any situation. As a result, it has taken me the majority of my life to change from living to eat to eating to live and to change my relationship with food into a healthy one. As a result, there are a variety of healthy lifestyle behaviors and choices that I practice in regards to nutrition. I always start my day with breakfast, eat every two to three hours, and stop eating two hours before bedtime. I am able to avoid fast food and go out to eat once a week by making a weekly meal plan and preparing meals ahead of time. When grocery shopping, I always bring grocery list, a full stomach, and focus on the perimeter of the store where the less processed food is located. I take my weight; divide it by two, and that is number of ounces of water I drink daily. Plus, I don’t smoke, drink soda, or drink alcohol. Finally, I increase my vegetables, limit carbohydrates and sweets, eat nuts for snacks, and eat fruits for …show more content…
As a result, to attract new and maintain the current nursing staff, employers need to work on educating the nursing staff on health promotion and improving lifestyle choices to improve satisfaction in nurses. The quality of care patients receives and nursing turnover has a direct correlation with the stress that nurses are experiencing and how this stress is dealt with. Most nurses have poor self-care practices and deal with stress by self-medicating with food, alcohol, or smoking (Markwell, Polivka, Morris, Ryan, & Taylor, 2016). As a result, the top three preventable health risks that health care workers face are obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity. Obesity has been related to working night shift, long work hours, job strain, and job insecurity. Secondly, physical inactivity when off work is found in healthcare workers that have low participation in decision making at work and frequent involuntary overtime. Smoking is found in those individuals with high job demands, high job strain, low job control, working nights, and low social support from coworkers and supervisors (Miranda, Gore, Boyer, Nobrega, & Punnett,