Self-Care Paper:
Insufficient Sleep The nursing profession is an integral component of the healthcare industry. Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health; it is the prevention of illness and injury, and facilitation of healing and alleviation of suffering (American Nursing Association, 2016). Nurses are a vital element to humanity’s health, but with this significance yields a complex and challenging profession. Nurses are subjected to a particularly high risk of burning-out (a multidimensional construct consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment), which causes them to leave the profession entirely in search of better career fulfillment (Duquette, Kérowc, Sandhu & Beaudet, 1994). This profession is demanding and stressful. A study done by Kovner, Brewer, Fatehi & Jun (2014) found that 17.5% of newly licensed RNs had changed …show more content…
Bedrooms should be cool (between 60°F and 67°F), free from any noise that can disturb sleep, and free from any disruptive lighting (National Sleep Foundation, 2016). I personally have a difficult sleeping environment. I have an unregulated room temperature (usually falls outside of the 60°F to 67°F range), I live in a house with 4 other roommates with widely varying schedules, and I have a massive, light-admitting window. But I have developed solutions to these problems. I need to purchase a bedroom heater and a fan. These two items will allow me to sleep in the preferred sleeping temperature range. To deal with the noise disruptions, I need to either purchase a white noise machine or ear plugs (whichever I find works best to eliminate jarring sounds). And to mitigate the window, I need to buy a blackout curtain. These purchases may add up to a sizeable amount of money but the returns gained from quality sleep should far surpass this
Insufficient Sleep The nursing profession is an integral component of the healthcare industry. Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health; it is the prevention of illness and injury, and facilitation of healing and alleviation of suffering (American Nursing Association, 2016). Nurses are a vital element to humanity’s health, but with this significance yields a complex and challenging profession. Nurses are subjected to a particularly high risk of burning-out (a multidimensional construct consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment), which causes them to leave the profession entirely in search of better career fulfillment (Duquette, Kérowc, Sandhu & Beaudet, 1994). This profession is demanding and stressful. A study done by Kovner, Brewer, Fatehi & Jun (2014) found that 17.5% of newly licensed RNs had changed …show more content…
Bedrooms should be cool (between 60°F and 67°F), free from any noise that can disturb sleep, and free from any disruptive lighting (National Sleep Foundation, 2016). I personally have a difficult sleeping environment. I have an unregulated room temperature (usually falls outside of the 60°F to 67°F range), I live in a house with 4 other roommates with widely varying schedules, and I have a massive, light-admitting window. But I have developed solutions to these problems. I need to purchase a bedroom heater and a fan. These two items will allow me to sleep in the preferred sleeping temperature range. To deal with the noise disruptions, I need to either purchase a white noise machine or ear plugs (whichever I find works best to eliminate jarring sounds). And to mitigate the window, I need to buy a blackout curtain. These purchases may add up to a sizeable amount of money but the returns gained from quality sleep should far surpass this