Answer to Question 1B
Professionally healthy individuals are satisfied with their career choices, are goal-directed, and seek every opportunity to obtain knowledge and learn new experiences. Some strategies to enhance one's own professional health include: 1) setting goals (both short- and long-term goals), 2) reading professional materials as often as possible to enhance your knowledge base (not necessarily fiction and nonfiction materials, but those that pertain to your area of expertise), 3) joining a professional organization, and 4) networking with others within the health care field.
Answer to Question 2D
A variety of stress relief techniques is available today to guide nurses in ways to help manage stressors. Some of these include: 1) do not procrastinate, 2) set realistic goals, 3) be polite to all, 4) talk about your worries (not keep things to yourself), 5) forgive your mistakes, 6) do a good deed, 7) focus on the positive, and
let go of the need to be perfect.
Answer to Question 3A
Anger is an emotion that nurses may encounter in the workplace due to a number of different factors. Some of the primary reasons for nurses' anger in the workplace are: 1) unreasonable workload, 2) demeaning treatment by other health care workers, 3) inadequate staffing, 4) lack of administrative support, 5) feeling powerless to influence difficult situations, and 6) feeling like a scapegoat for mistakes within the system.
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The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
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