Hello Everyone,
I remind myself when I'm in a stressful situation to take a moment and reflect on what is truly important. Life will unfold as it does but the importance I place on it and how I react determines whether the outcome will be more or less stressful. I teach nursing students and their stress level is high and instilling this in the classroom setting is imperative for when they become nurses on the floor.
We need to learn effective coping skills to be able to navigate through challenges along life .
I learned that facing situation head on is the more healthy approach because even if you cope with it for a while, you eventually have to deal with it.
There are many ways and resources available to navigate difficult situations. Changing your mindset often helps improve a situation that you have little physical control over.
Focus on positive occurrences.
In this module, I learned that there are many coping mechanisms. I learned that we tend to prefer some coping mechanisms over others and use them for every life challenge. However not all life issues should be dealt with in the same manner.
It is a positive environment for all students to experience some degree of failure in the classroom, as long as it is a supportive and uplifting space. They need to know that it is okay to not always be correct and that mistakes occur.
I have learned there are 2 types of coping with stressful demands: problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping and what each is.
I have learned ways to handle internal and external stress and being resilient in the face of all this challenges.
Handling stress in heathly ways is important to ones well being.
In general, active coping methods are more effective that avoidant coping strategies when dealing with stress. You must have a many strategies to deal with stress as there is no single answer.
I have learned how to handle internal and external stress in a healthy emotional way
