Details: Week Seven Learning Assignment #1

Details: Week Seven Learning Assignment #1

Topic: Introduction to nursing practice

Details: Week Seven Learning Assignment #1
For this week’s learning assignment, you will engage in a lot of self-reflection!
1. Complete the FICA spiritual assessment and include your results in this assignment.
2. Review the Whole Health Model (see handout).
3. Engage in self-reflection and identify how you plan to strive for whole health throughout nursing school. As nurses, we have to take care of ourselves to be able to take care of our patient’s/client’s. In nursing school, you need to take care of yourself in order to promote success and prevent burnout!
4. Provide personal examples for each element of the Whole Health Model that you plan to utilize during nursing school.
Self-Care:
o Working Your Body
o Surroundings
o Personal Development
o Food & Drink
o Recharge
o Family, Friends & Co-workers
o Spirit & Soul (include FICA assessment info when relevant)
o Power of the Mind
Professional Care
o Prevention
o Treatment
Community
5. Obtain 1 scholarly article in a nursing journal about self-care and nursing school/education and provide support for the self-care activities you identified.

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Introduction
Life in nursing school can be challenging and tiring because it can be difficult to find a balance between course work, clinical, and family life. There are days when one experiences a complete burn-out and feel like they are at the end of the road. In a research conducted by Blum (2019), he found out that a number of nursing students experience extreme levels of fatigue,

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