In a perfect world, brutality, car crashes, and other catastrophes would not occur. Then infections and sickness would be nonexistent. EMTs or paramedics would not have a purpose for their job. Unfortunately, our world is not a perfect place. EMTs or paramedics are globally essential to our society. In Breathe: Essays from a Recovery Paramedic, the author, whom is a former paramedic emphasize the stressful circumstances and difficult incidents that she experienced on a daily basis. Using Schafer's concept of stress management, I will discuss examples of occupational stressors and coping mechanisms from a paramedic’s perception. First off, occupational stress occurs in various divergent ways in the book, Breathe. In this section, I will discuss
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Due to the dark night and fog that made their commute hard to reach their destination. This is a stressor because it involves environmental, commuting, social, and work stressors (Schafer, 2000, pp. 3). Another example of stressor is from the Breathe chapter of the book. The stressor in this section was how the author was in a situation that was ‘stressful’. She had to help save the baby of a woman who just gave birth in a toilet room. Stressful as this may sound already, her partner was not with her yet and there were tremendous of thoughts strolling through her head and she’s got to think/act fast. This stressors requires the author to make decisions immediately without the instruments that she needs. The next stressor example is from the Disneyland chapter of the reading. This section explores the horror of a traffic collision. In particular, Martin was the one that stood out to me the most in this chapter besides the author. My reasons are that Martin simply did the best he could to help his patient, doing his job, and strictly followed orders from the hospital. Although, he did everything he could, he couldn’t save his patient and the bystanders were in his face. I …show more content…
One example of coping mechanism is from the section on Jeff. The coping mechanism here is being aware of Jeff’s personality. As the Paiva mentioned that Jeff is a mind-speaker, she also mentions the the positive of what that can be (Paiva, 2011). The next example is from the Disneyland section regarding Martin as discussed above. In this incident, the coping mechanism was he was “employing effective coping techniques in dealing with specific stressors” (Schafer, 2000, pp. 43). Another example of coping mechanism is from The Day After Valentine’s Day section. The example here is that the author was working in a calm manner and keeping her patient calm as well. In the state that her patient was in and keeping him calm would be stressfully ballistic. But she did a great job “practicing effective techniques for eliciting the relaxation response” (Schafer, 2000, pp. 43). In my opinion, I think that this was a positive coping
Due to the dark night and fog that made their commute hard to reach their destination. This is a stressor because it involves environmental, commuting, social, and work stressors (Schafer, 2000, pp. 3). Another example of stressor is from the Breathe chapter of the book. The stressor in this section was how the author was in a situation that was ‘stressful’. She had to help save the baby of a woman who just gave birth in a toilet room. Stressful as this may sound already, her partner was not with her yet and there were tremendous of thoughts strolling through her head and she’s got to think/act fast. This stressors requires the author to make decisions immediately without the instruments that she needs. The next stressor example is from the Disneyland chapter of the reading. This section explores the horror of a traffic collision. In particular, Martin was the one that stood out to me the most in this chapter besides the author. My reasons are that Martin simply did the best he could to help his patient, doing his job, and strictly followed orders from the hospital. Although, he did everything he could, he couldn’t save his patient and the bystanders were in his face. I …show more content…
One example of coping mechanism is from the section on Jeff. The coping mechanism here is being aware of Jeff’s personality. As the Paiva mentioned that Jeff is a mind-speaker, she also mentions the the positive of what that can be (Paiva, 2011). The next example is from the Disneyland section regarding Martin as discussed above. In this incident, the coping mechanism was he was “employing effective coping techniques in dealing with specific stressors” (Schafer, 2000, pp. 43). Another example of coping mechanism is from The Day After Valentine’s Day section. The example here is that the author was working in a calm manner and keeping her patient calm as well. In the state that her patient was in and keeping him calm would be stressfully ballistic. But she did a great job “practicing effective techniques for eliciting the relaxation response” (Schafer, 2000, pp. 43). In my opinion, I think that this was a positive coping