...Personal Responsibility and College Success Dora Kareem GEN/200 February 6, 2012 Sara Martin Personal Responsibility and College Success Some students believe that outside forces control circumstances in school, and therefore, their grades. There is a direct correlation between taking personal responsibility of grades and college success. Limiting what outside negative forces have and bringing positive influences through time management and healthy choices will improve success greatly. Taking personal responsibility, a student can lead a healthy lifestyle and considerably improve college grades. Personal responsibility is taking accountability for actions, accepting the consequences that come from those actions, and realizing how to improve. Many times there are outside forces that try to inhibit success while in college. The duties and responsibilities required from work, family, social responsibility, and health can all interfere with choices for success. The hours at work, whether full-time or part-time do not always stop when leaving work. Sometimes work is brought home, putting in extra hours to complete the project instead of using good time management skills and delegation to get it done. Families are a full-time job and contain extraordinary obligations. Family responsibility does not stop when leaving for work, running errands, or have a night out with friends. When one’s child or spouse gets sick or an emergency happens, everything generally stops...
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...PSY 108 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric: Analysis Journal In Milestone Three, you will submit your second journal, in which you will focus on the Analysis section (Section III) of your stress management action plan. Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed: III. Analysis a) Referring to the two studies you chose, either from the list below or ones you located on your own, consider how the findings relate to your own situation and personal stress levels. Can you learn anything from the conclusions of either study that you can apply in your own life? i. How Stress Influences Disease: Study Reveals Inflammation as the Culprit ii. How to Predict Who Will Suffer the Most From Stress iii. Stress Changes How People Make Decisions b) Summarize different ways in which you can minimize or manage stress in order to support your personal or career goals. Draw from resources you reviewed throughout the course. Approach this milestone as an opportunity to reflect upon and apply what you learn this week and as an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise based on your educational and professional experiences in the past. As a successful professional, you will need good reflective and writing skills. Journal activities offer you the opportunity to further develop these skills. Review this tutorial for information on creating a Blackboard journal entry. Journals are private between the student and the instructor. Guidelines for Submission: Submit Milestone Three...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success Cody Murphy GEN/200 October 16, 2012 Alyse Stone Personal Responsibility and College Success Thesis Statement Some people believe that they can keep their same routines and successfully complete a college degree. Students must analyze and adjust their personal responsibilities to be successful while attending college. College success depends on the ability to balance personal responsibilities and academic requirements. Some students do not change current routines while attending college. A student must change routines in daily life to be successful in college. Personal responsibility is the responsibilities and obligations people have to themselves and others. Personal responsibility is the ability for a student to make a positive impact on lives. Personal responsibilities include; physical and mental health awareness, stress management, and maintaining financial obligations. It takes a high level of fitness and determination to succeed in an ever-changing academic world. The students will experience many stressors that will influence their academic outcome. The students need to make financial arrangements to ensure a degree completion. In a recent study published in The Journal of College Admission scholars suggested: Students drop out of college for a variety of reasons, such as academic failures, personal problems, or changes in career plan. Those who fail to attain a college degree have fewer career opportunities...
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...Material Personal and Professional Challenges Matrix Worksheet Use the following matrix to describe three personal and three professional challenges. For each challenge, describe time and stress management techniques along with personal development resources that may help a nurse overcome these challenges. |Personal Challenge |Time Management Technique |Stress Management Technique |Personal Development Resources | |Example: Balancing work and family |Use a calendar or organizer to plan my |Take regular family vacations. |Family counseling and self-help books | |responsibilities |schedule. | | | |Balance between work and study |I will use my planner to create a schedule for |Take time off to take care of myself such as |Read time management and stress relieve books. | | |the whole month and update it as needed. |spend time with family and have at least an | | | | |hour daily of quite time to relax. | | |Maintain Personal Health...
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...Practice: “Stress nurses face caring for palliative care patients?” Regina Nelson Governors State University Abstract Palliative Care Nurses are at risk of experiencing stressful situations related to symptom management and death. The aim of this paper is to critically examine the current stress nurses face caring for Palliative Care patients. Four Nursing Journals and one Psycho-Oncology were reviewed. There was strong evidence to support that nurse’s experience stress caring for Palliative care patients. Common concerns in the first study were caring for a dying patient; personal level, comfort of the patient, and mediating between patient and family. The second study reported physical and emotional health consequences for nurses who provide hospice and palliative care over extended periods of time. The third study of nursesreported job satisfaction, stressors, coping strategies, and support. The fourth study nurses had 10 themes that conceptualize their work that may enable palliative care workers to remain resilient and effectively buffer or moderate stressful effects. The fifth study reported routinization of care, lack of nursing staff’s availability for emotional engagement, frequent interruptions, quiet afternoons, upbeat and positive culture, and a matter of fact attitude surrounding death and dying ,were all the behaviors that “being with” could not create. Although the report showed nurses able to cope by not “being with” the overall impact is stress related to...
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...Baccalaureate Nursing Students. (2009) Directed by Dr. David F. Ayers. 135 pp. Despite extensive research establishing that stress affects problem-solving ability and coping, and leads to decreased learning, academic performance, and retention in nursing students, a paucity of research explores specific factors that could enhance these learning processes and outcomes. This explanatory correlational study examines the mediating effect of learned resourcefulness, the ability to regulate emotions and cognitions, on the relationships of stressors—both personal and academic—to academic performance in baccalaureate nursing students. Gadzella’s Student-life Stress Inventory (SSI) and Rosenbaum’s Self-Control Scale (SCS), a measure of learned resourcefulness, were administered to 53 junior level baccalaureate nursing students (92.5% female; 84.9% Caucasian; 9.4% African-American or Black) at a large urban university in North Carolina. High levels of both personal and academic stressors were revealed, but were not significant predictors of academic performance (p = .90). Age was a significant predictor of academic performance (p < .01) and both males and African-American/ Black participants had higher learned resourcefulness scores on the SCS than females and Caucasians. Total stress scores on the Student-life Stress Inventory showed that male participants perceived less stress (N = 4, M = 116.5) than females (N = 41, M = 141). No significant relationships among learned resourcefulness, stressors...
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...International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 7[Special Issue –June 2011] Occupational Stress of Teachers: A Comparative Study Between Turkey and Macedonia Dr. Figen Eres Assistant Professor Department of Educational Science Gazi University, Ankara Turkey E-mail: feres@gazi.edu.tr, Phone: +903124844631 Dr. Tatjana Atanasoska Assistant Professor Department of Education University of St. Kliment Ohridski, Macedonia E -mail: t.atanasoska@pfbt.uklo.edu.mk, Phone: +38970853624 Abstract The aim of the study is to determine the stress level of Turkish and Macedonian teachers living in different socio-cultural and economic situations. The scale used in the study has been developed by researches. 416 Turkish teachers and 213 Macedonian teachers have participated in the study. At the end of the study it was seen that Turkish teachers have mild stress levels and Macedonian teachers have moderate stress levels. There is a meaningful difference in the stress level points of Turkish and Macedonian teachers. Policy makers are advised to analyse the teacher training and assessment system with the assumption that personal and social characteristics and working conditions may have an effect on teacher stress. Implications for further research are also discussed. Keywords: Teacher stress, primary education teachers, Macedonia, Turkey 1.Introduction Stress is the abnormal reaction that the organism displays against threating environmental elements. (Luthans, 1994). Stress, which...
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...University of Phoenix Material Personal and Professional Challenges Matrix Worksheet Use the following matrix to describe three personal and three professional challenges. For each challenge, describe time and stress management techniques along with personal development resources that may help a nurse overcome these challenges. |Personal Challenge |Time Management Technique |Stress Management Technique |Personal Development Resources | |Example: Balancing work and family |Use a calendar or organizer to plan my |Take regular family vacations. |Family counseling and self-help books | |responsibilities |schedule. | | | |Fear of writing |Plan a free writing time once a day. |Write something fun. |Using Center for Writing Excellence from | | | | |University of Phoenix. | | |Find best time and quiet place to write. |Listen to music or read something interesting | | | ...
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...history of witnessing the tragedy experienced by patients and families; however, their own reactions to profound loss and premature death have not been systematically addressed. There is a paucity of research describing interventions to prevent or minimize the ramifications of repeated exposure to traumatic events in the clinical workplace. Compassion fatigue is a contemporary label affixed to the concept of personal vicarious exposure to trauma on a regular basis. Yet this phenomenon of compassion fatigue lacks clarity. In this article, the author begins by describing compassion fatigue and distinguishing compassion fatigue from burnout. Next she discusses risk factors for, and the assessment of compassion fatigue. The need to support nurses who witness tragedy and workplace interventions to confront compassion fatigue are described. Citation: Boyle, D., (Jan 31, 2011) "Countering Compassion Fatigue: A Requisite Nursing Agenda" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 16, No. 1, Manuscript 2. DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol16No01Man02 Key words: Compassion fatigue, nurse stress, work setting improvements, communication skills Nurses care for ill, wounded, traumatized, and vulnerable patients in their charge. This exposes them to considerable pain, trauma, and suffering on a routine basis (Coetzee & Klopper, 2010; Hooper, Craig, Janvrin, Wetzel, & Reimels, 2010). While many nurses perceive their work as a calling, few anticipate the emotional implications and sequelae that come from...
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...Personal Goals Houa Chang HCS/301 June 17, 2013 Dale Mueller Goals, as we define them, are to have a set outcome. We invent them out of fantasy of how we want our lives to be, we cannot predict our future, so setting goals helps guide us. When we set goals it does not end when we achieve that goal. We accomplish the goal, we immediately look to the next goal, therefore I have set out my professional short and long -term goals. Some of them include professional, personal, and when I plan on completing these goals. I have also taken into consideration barriers that I may come across throughout my journey. Personal Goals Setting goals helps us to determine where we vision ourselves in the future. It encourages us to strive for better opportunities that allow for individual growth. My idea of nursing is to be a patient advocate and use effective communication. Ethnicity, religion, and an individual’s background plays an important role but that is why nursing is so diverse and special. It allows each of us to set out short and long- term goals to improve ourselves. As stated by Cynthia O’Neal, (November 2004). Journal of Nursing Education, 43 (11), 524. “In today’s health care environment, baccalaureate nurses must be prepared to use essential leadership skills to manage and coordinate teams of care.” Professional Short -Term Goal My personal short-term goal is to obtain a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing. I want to...
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...Stress Management for Sales People by Introduction Type A individuals are self-critical and competitive. As such, they focus on achieving goals without having any sense of joy for their accomplishments or efforts. Further, they have life imbalance, which originates from the high work involvement. Frank Taylor's automobile sales people are suffering from the Type A personalities, which makes them experience an element of stress in their life. Table 1: guiding principle for the program Assessment of the stress | 1. Use the figures to understand the scope of stress, which is revealed by evaluating illness, absenteeism, performance and turnover rates. 2. Forming a stress management team, which assists in identifying the stressors 3. Surveying employees to identifying stressors at work and off work. 4. Offering a health risk assessment for the lifestyle factors and diseases contributing to stress. | Maximum participation | All employees should be involved. Ongoing communication has to be distributed | Approach | Enlist organizations in the community, which will assist in the program. For example, mental health centers will facilitate in conducting seminars on stress and the strategies for coping. Local group (YMCA) will offer assistance on on-site instructionsEncourage all employees to participate in the formulated exercises Employee support group, which will comprise of the human resources facilitator, will be established. Such will ensure that the discussion...
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...A Conceptual Analysis of Stress Alanda James University of South Alabama Abstract Stress is a prominent factor that affects the lives of people who deliver healthcare to patients every day. It is important to examine the concept because unhealthy stress can cause multiple effects on the caregiver and patient. Positive forms of stress can be beneficial to practice, and negative forms of stress can put practice in danger. A conceptual analysis of stress will strategically define the concept, explore antecedents, and pinpoint consequences associated with stress. The mental and physical effects of stress will be examined, and the link between effects and antecedents will be established. The antecedents of stress are essential to identifying the underlying problem, and prevention methods can be implored once those problems have been identified. In addition, cases will be presented reflecting the use of stress to educate the reader with knowledge and recognition of the concept. A model case, related case, contrary case, and borderline case are given in the text as examples to illustrate the concept of stress. A Conceptual Analysis of Stress Stress is a concept that derives from strain placed on a human being. Dictionary.com (2012) defines stress as “mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension”. Positive and negative aspects of stress exist depending on the particular incident or situation. Stress can be activated when a student is nervous about presenting a speech,...
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...An Analytical Study of Executive Stress Management in Selected Industries Of Thane District. RESEARCH PROPASAL Submitted to BHARATI VIDYAPEETH’S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT ,PUNE. For the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Under the Department of Human Resource Management IMED, PUNE. By Mrs. Saili Satyendra Narvekar Under the guidance of Dr.Anjali Kalse Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute Of Management Studies and Reasearch, CBD- Belapure, Navi Mumbai August 2014 Research Proposal for Ph.D.degree at Bharati Vidyapeeth ,Pune Title of the Research proposal | An Analytical study of Executive stress Management in selected Industries of Thane District. | Name of Candidate | Mrs. Saili Satyendra Narvekar. | Educational Qualification of Candidate | M.COM(PUNE UNIVERSITY) | Name and Designation of Research Supervisor | Dr. Anjali Kalse , Professor | Place of Research Work | Institute of Management &Entrepreneurship Development,Pune. | Date of Submission of Proposal | | Signature of Candidate | | Signature of the Research Supervisor | | Research proposal S.No. | Content | Page No. | 1. | Introduction | | 2. | Rationale | | 3. | Significance | | 4. | Literature Review | | 5. | Objectives | | 6. | Research Hypothesis | | 7. | Conceptual Framework | | 8. | Operational Definition | | 9. | Research...
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...Causes and Prevention of Burnout Carrie Frazier, MSW/LCSW Causes and Prevention of Burnout Every human service organization experiences burnout in different ways this is an issue that will have an effect on the staff member’s personal and work life. Burnout can also be one of the main issues within the organization. Human service employee’s jobs can be stressful and overwhelming, particularly when having many clients, required to work overtime, and attempting to balance his or her workload with his or her home life. Burnout may have many causes, but there are preventions to help people to avoid burnout as well. Burnout According to Johnson and Stone, burnout “refers to a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion resulting from involvement with people in emotionally demanding situations” (Johnson & Stone, 1987p.67). Burnout decreases an employee’s productivity and drains his or her energy, leaving him or her to feel more hopeless, resentful, and helpless. In the end the employee, possibly will feel as if he or have nothing else to offer anyone. Causes of Burnout There are many causes of burnout in the world today. In most situations, burnout may come from a job. A person who believes he or she is undervalued and overworked is facing the possibility of becoming burnout. If a person is working hard for a company daily for year and have not received a raise or vacation, being single...
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...Stress A Conceptual Analysis of Stress Abstract Stress is a prominent factor that affects the lives of people who deliver healthcare to patients every day. It is important to examine the concept because unhealthy stress can cause multiple effects on the caregiver and patient. Positive forms of stress can be beneficial to practice, and negative forms of stress can put practice in danger. A conceptual analysis of stress will strategically define the concept, explore antecedents, and pinpoint consequences associated with stress. The mental and physical effects of stress will be examined, and the link between effects and antecedents will be established. The antecedents of stress are essential to identifying the underlying problem, and prevention methods can be implored once those problems have been identified. In addition, cases will be presented reflecting the use of stress to educate the reader with knowledge and recognition of the concept. A model case, related case, contrary case, and borderline case are given in the text as examples to illustrate the concept of stress. A Conceptual Analysis of Stress Stress is a concept that derives from strain placed on a human being. Dictionary.com (2012) defines stress as “mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension”. Positive and negative aspects of stress exist depending on the particular incident or situation. Stress can be activated when a student is nervous about presenting a speech, or a supervisor is worried about...
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