Stress Management: A Case Study

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Focus on Values of Self Care Through Stress and Time Management
Andrea M. Redling
Denver School of Nursing












Each individual possesses individual strengths and weaknesses when it comes to school, work, as well as life in general. It is important to be able to be able to identify those weaknesses in order to work on strengthening them, which ultimately will lead to lessening of the negative effects that influence daily life. For me personally, with nursing school, work, homework, family, friends, and other daily stressors, I struggle to adequately manage it all. Specifically when looking at how I manage my time, as well as how I manage my stress levels, I see a correlation with very negative effects. I am going to work on …show more content…

Stress management can be defined as “a physical, mental, and emotional response to a challenging event—not the event itself” (Mayo Clinic, 2014). That is why I feel that working on time management will correlate to how I react to stressors, instead of the stressors themselves.
There was a study conducted by Gibbons, Dempster, and Moutray (2011) that addressed stress, coping and satisfaction in nursing students by taking a deeper look into how different stress sources and coping resources affected the stress and psychological well being of the students. The findings suggested, “initiatives to promote support and self-efficacy are likely to have immediate benefits for student well-being”(Gibbon et al., 2011). The most helpful finding when applying the study to myself was considering eustress, instead of negative stress as an important way to encourage and support self-efficacy (Gibbon et al., 2011).
The next step after acknowledging and being aware of my personal weaknesses would be to take action to create a goal that applies to these areas. By creating SMART goals for stress, and time management, I will have a structured goal to bettering the way I care for myself.
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Both of these goals will help better my the way I care for myself by allowing me to identify eustress, personal stressors, stress relievers, and proactive approaches that lead to better maintenance of balancing stress levels. Having a better overall understanding will hopefully allow me to perceive innocent stressful situations in a much more calm, non-threatening way, and aware that there are many things within my control that I can do to better myself. By discovering more specific helpful patterns, techniques, and tricks, I will be able to use those for a wider rang, long-term oriented goal, directed more specifically towards a profession as a

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