Calming and Peaceful Insights for Stressed Nurses and Caregivers

As Nurses it is Our Job to Learn to Reduce Our Own Stress Before We Can Help Others

   There are so many questions we need answers to concerning our jobs, the local, state and national healthcare problems, and the costs of the big business of healthcare that we stress out over trying to get the answers from what we read or who we talk to.

 We unfortunately forget to look much closer to home for the coping skills we need. These skills are within you as your supreme nurturer. How do you think you can assimilate so much politics if you, yourself are too stressed out to think wisely? You must redevelop those calming skills you already have on board.

There is a unique problem called nurturers stress.

This type of stress originates because the nurturer absorbs the stresses of others, usually without the nurturer even realizing it. This is not the same thing as over stepping boundaries. When you empathize with someone you naturally absorb their emotions too.

So how to slow down the absorption of this stress, first by recognizing you are doing it and second by releasing and detaching your emotions. This does take practice but is worth the effort.

   Caring all of the time for human beings who are sick or in a condition of decreased health.

Those people you care about are extremely vulnerable to many emotional and physical problems, you as a nurse must combat this stress by reducing stress in your own lives.

How to Use Plants When You are on a Budget to Cultivate a Calm Environment

How to use plants when you are on a budget to cultivate a calm environment

Plants relieve you stress in many different ways. You don’t have to have a full time landscaper in your payroll, to have a peaceful patio or a plant filled relaxed home.

Try this low cost or no cost idea: Usually plants can be purchased at a very low cost, in most cases under $5.00. The best places to look for plants is your local home center. They will have plants that are right for your area’s climate and will give you ideas on how to nurture your plants.

One of the best way I get a supply of house plants is from friends. When I visit a friend’s home I usually go home with a cutting or a few stems from their plants to root and repot.

Plants are low maintenance or no maintenance at all: When your on a budget maintenance of any thing can be a problem. Your plants don’t have to stress you or your wallet. The plants you get from the home center will come with watering instructions and sunlight tips. For the ones you inherit from your friends, just as for their advise.

Plants can help you in cultivating a calm environment: Use your own imagination when it comes to where to put your plants. If you feel you need more calming in your living room, then make a few plants a part of the décor. Patio plants are usually the most effective for both beauty and their relaxing effects.

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

Avoid Making Decisions When Stressed can Waste your Decision Making Time

When you find yourself being busy for the sake of having something to do, to impress someone or to because you are so stressed that you are burning the candle at both ends and panicking in the middle. You know you are no going to be able to make decisions very well. It goes without saying you don’t make critical decisions when your stressed. But we all do that and we usually have a very bad experience. So how to avoid the bad stuff?

Most decisions that are made with haste will cause you much more stress. You are pressed for time and do not have all the facts to make a wise decision. Well you know you must take some time to be a bit more self disciplined and get most of the facts. Besides when you are more calm you can truly rely on your gut or inside feelings to steer you in the right direction. The key here is calm. No one will condemn you for waiting a bit. The idea of sleeping on it works very well. Besides you will think clearer when you have had time think more calmly on it.

Making quick decisions without beating your self up: When you must make a decision quickly, don’t feel guilty instead feel empowered that you did the right thing, if you need to change your decisions do it slowly over time. Feel confident with your gut feelings. Trust yourself and take a relaxed stand, feel and look empowered, by all means never beat yourself up.

Making important decisions without help: You want to be an independent thinker and make your decisions yourself, but if they effect others you might want to get another opinions . Empowering others to help you in decision making will calm you and you will see other options.