Week 5: Stress Management and Coping Skills

Week 5: Stress Management and Coping Skills Readings: Blakely Article and First Day Nerves excerpt Notes on readings: • Nurses report higher levels of workplace stress • • Coping strategies are often predictive of your mental and physical health The nurse must be accountable for their own well-being, seeking healthy coping strategies, or asking for help when needed • for the first day nerves it shows how you view situations, positively, negatively, etc. Learning Objectives: • students will reflect on their personal stressors, coping skills and support systems • • • discuss the stress response and how stress impacts physical and mental well-being Explore personal relationship to stress and identify adaptive & maladaptive coping skills Explore how perception impacts stress and the differences between reacting vs. responding to stress • Identify resources to help promote positive coping skills “Stress is a particular relationship between the person and the environment is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding their resources” ↓ · · resilience energy required everyone world lost some stress ↳ t ↓ the differently things to some shaped by and views cause decide whether or not is , community grades deadlines , , exams , influences now you will , personal experiences feeling of being behind , situation stressful What causes stress for you? ↳ a ↳ how we perceive more but not others age , we priorities respond sensory input adala hypothalamus -> HPA : -> activation of fight or ↓ activation of flight response t men HPA AXIS hypothalamus - cortisol pituitary (gas) adrenal long · activity term stress ↳ burn of the can cause symptoms of Stress How : · 7 over/under eating · - - - nausea · · fatigue · · · sweating · · moody /emotional · tension · · · Unrealistic/high expectations ↳ 3 progress doors : ne · · stuffing to many health we calming reactivity hobby · eating go for · a social connections shower/bath journalling · responding ↳ proper processing door) : procrastination isolation and withdrawal walk and calmness choose your Bad music perfection · : Sleep A for ourselves internalization Cyou stress issues deal with stress . ⑩ emotions lower suppressed distracted · amygdala out/depression ↳ immune system · (break) epinephrine reduce the · parasympathetic Sympathetic · · · binge eating substance abuse crying