Diet & Nutrition
Maintaining the health of nurses is essential to ensure that they can continue to provide optimal healthcare for others. Thus, we plan to implement a program addressing concerns in diet and nutrition, to encourage the healthy eating behaviours of nurses so that they may maintain their health and wellness.
As healthcare professionals, nurses face certain risk factors for unhealthy dietary behaviours and obesity. These risk factors may include irregular meal schedules, long work hours, and high stress levels, all of which may come as a result of the job (1). High stress levels may be caused by the heavy workload and emotional aspects of nursing, as well as the unpredictability and time-sensitive nature of the job (1, 2). …show more content…
Thus, our diet and nutrition program will run throughout the entire year. We plan to have snacks stocked in appropriate places such as staff rooms and wellness rooms, to allow nurses the opportunity to provide themselves with energy when needed throughout the day. This addresses the issues of the availability and price of healthy foods, as we are providing these snacks without cost to the nurses. As well, providing these snacks in locations such as staff rooms allow nurses with their busy schedules to be able to quickly grab a healthier option to provide their bodies with energy or satisfy their …show more content…
focused on the relationship between sport and recreation membership and happiness in a large, culturally diverse sample (21). The results suggest that, in fact, sport membership is associated with happiness (21). The mechanism through which this relationship is established can be explained via with the fact that sport/recreation contributes to health. However, another mechanism may be the intimate social relations that occur in sport/recreation (21). That is, above and beyond the contribution of increased health, sport participation may directly influence happiness via the development of intimate social relationships (e.g., solidarity, collective values and goals) between teammates, coaches, and opponents (21). This can be directly applied to nurses who must be skilled in dealing with others with different occupations and who are at different levels of proficiency (such as residents, physicians, co-nurses, anesthesiologists, etc.) as their job is centered around being able to work in a team. Through our gym facility, nurses can foster these strong relationships between their fellow colleagues by playing team-building sports, rather than trite, less stimulating
Maintaining the health of nurses is essential to ensure that they can continue to provide optimal healthcare for others. Thus, we plan to implement a program addressing concerns in diet and nutrition, to encourage the healthy eating behaviours of nurses so that they may maintain their health and wellness.
As healthcare professionals, nurses face certain risk factors for unhealthy dietary behaviours and obesity. These risk factors may include irregular meal schedules, long work hours, and high stress levels, all of which may come as a result of the job (1). High stress levels may be caused by the heavy workload and emotional aspects of nursing, as well as the unpredictability and time-sensitive nature of the job (1, 2). …show more content…
Thus, our diet and nutrition program will run throughout the entire year. We plan to have snacks stocked in appropriate places such as staff rooms and wellness rooms, to allow nurses the opportunity to provide themselves with energy when needed throughout the day. This addresses the issues of the availability and price of healthy foods, as we are providing these snacks without cost to the nurses. As well, providing these snacks in locations such as staff rooms allow nurses with their busy schedules to be able to quickly grab a healthier option to provide their bodies with energy or satisfy their …show more content…
focused on the relationship between sport and recreation membership and happiness in a large, culturally diverse sample (21). The results suggest that, in fact, sport membership is associated with happiness (21). The mechanism through which this relationship is established can be explained via with the fact that sport/recreation contributes to health. However, another mechanism may be the intimate social relations that occur in sport/recreation (21). That is, above and beyond the contribution of increased health, sport participation may directly influence happiness via the development of intimate social relationships (e.g., solidarity, collective values and goals) between teammates, coaches, and opponents (21). This can be directly applied to nurses who must be skilled in dealing with others with different occupations and who are at different levels of proficiency (such as residents, physicians, co-nurses, anesthesiologists, etc.) as their job is centered around being able to work in a team. Through our gym facility, nurses can foster these strong relationships between their fellow colleagues by playing team-building sports, rather than trite, less stimulating