Course work

first part

In this assignment, the student will create a poster that delineates a plan to balance their professional and personal lives. The poster will also include a plan for fostering personal well-being and resiliency as a professional nurse.

Create a poster that delineates a plan to balance your professional and personal lives. The poster will also include a plan for fostering personal well-being and resiliency as a professional nurse. This assignment aims to achieve the following course objectives:

• Create a plan to balance personal wellness and professional obligations.
• Discuss how personal wellness, resiliency, and well-being impact a nurses commitment to the profession of nursing.
• Demonstrate healthy, self-care behaviors that promote wellness and resiliency.
• Contribute to an environment that promotes self-care, personal health, and well-being.
• Manage conflict between personal and professional responsibilities.

Assignment Instructions

Instructions:

1. Poster Content:

• Title: Create a title for your poster that reflects its content and focus.
• Work-Life Balance Plan: Outline a detailed plan for balancing your professional responsibilities and personal life. Include strategies for managing time, setting boundaries, and prioritizing tasks.
• Self-Care Plan: Develop a comprehensive plan for fostering personal well-being and resiliency. Include physical, mental, emotional, and social self-care practices. You may need to review self-care content from Module 1.
• Impact Discussion: Discuss how personal wellness, resiliency, and well-being impact a nurses commitment to the nursing profession. Provide examples and evidence from the literature to support your points.
• Healthy Behaviors: Highlight specific self-care behaviors that promote wellness and resiliency. Describe how these behaviors can be integrated into daily routines.
• Conflict Management: Explain strategies for managing conflict between personal and professional responsibilities. Include examples of potential conflicts and how they can be resolved or mitigated.

1. Poster Design:

• Layout: Organize your content in a clear and logical manner. Use headings, subheadings, and bullet points to structure your information.
• Visual Appeal: Ensure your poster is visually appealing. Use colors, fonts, and images that are professional and enhance readability. Include visuals such as images, charts, and/or graphs, to enhance your posters appeal and convey information effectively.
• Clarity: Ensure all text is legible and concise. Avoid overcrowding your poster with too much text or too many images.

1. Submission:

• Format: Submit your poster as a PDF or image file (e.g., JPEG, PNG).
• Due Date: Submit your completed poster by [insert due date] through the courses online submission portal.

second part

use the attachment for this part

For the Module Reflective Journal Worksheet, please reflect on a time as a nursing student or as a practicing nurse where you:

• Prioritized your personal health, well-being, and/or work-life balance OR
• Attempted to or made a health commitment in one of the six specific focus areas from the HNHN.

Use Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle to structure your reflection, gaining insights into your experience and identifying strategies to manage similar situations in the future.

1. Description:

• What happened? Describe the situation in detail. Provide context about where you were, who was involved, and what led up to the event.
• Prompt: “Describe a specific event. What was happening around you, and who was involved?”

1. Feelings:

• What were you thinking and feeling? Reflect on your emotional and physical reactions during the event.
• Prompt: “What were your initial feelings and thoughts during this situation? How did your emotions evolve as the event progressed?”

1. Evaluation:

• What was good and bad about the experience? Analyze the positive and negative aspects of the situation.
• Prompt: “Looking back, what aspects of the situation went well, and what did not? What were the outcomes, and how did they affect you and others involved?”

1. Analysis:

• What sense can you make of the situation?Examine why the event happened and what factors contributed to it.
• Prompt: “Why do you think you the event happened? What factors contributed to the situation, and how did they impact the outcome?”

1. Conclusion:

• What else could you have done? Reflect on alternative actions or strategies you could have used.
• Prompt: “Considering the situation and its outcomes, what could you have done differently? What other approaches might have been helpful?”

1. Action Plan:

• If it arose again, what would you do?Develop a plan for how to handle similar situations in the future.
• Prompt: “How will you manage similar situations in the future? What strategies or resources will you use?”