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SCP103 Self-Care Practices - Torrens University Australia

Journal: Personal Reflection

Learning Outcome 1: Understand the importance of effective relationship building to positive wellbeing.

Learning Outcome 2: Explore common, contemporary, healthy activities of daily living such as nutrition, activity, hygiene, mindfulness and use of complementary medicines.

Learning Outcome 3: Describe the potential physical, psychological, social and professional outcomes of acute and/or sustained stress.

Learning Outcome 4: Explore the concept of professional boundaries for health professionals and outline strategies to maintain appropriate personal/professional boundaries and self/patient/cultural safety.

Learning Outcome 5: Undertake personal self-evaluation of health care and stress management approaches and identify areas for development, to increase well-being and resilience.

Context

The reflective journal aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of self-care practices and your ability to document and reflect on personal experiences, thoughts and emotions. During your professional career, the ability to write and document concisely is an important skill, as is your ability to reflect on your own practice and learning.

This reflective journal will assist you to recognise and develop resilience to stressors both professionally and personally. You will be:
• reviewing, reflecting upon and analysing your current self-care practices and priorities,
• measuring these against contemporary practices, definitions, and theories and
• building strategies around maintenance and/or improvements of self-care practices.
Understanding the importance of caring for yourself is vital not only to maintain good health and wellbeing, but also to care and educate others to care for themselves, an essential skill in nursing.

Instructions

In this assessment task, you should:

• Consider and respond the following four (4) questions thoroughly in a reflective writing style:
1. Identify self-care practices you could relate to from the videos/podcasts in the learning resources for module 1, which could help you address the areas of concern or development.

2. Identify your areas of concern or development after completing your personal wellness wheel in module 2.
a. Please add a screen shot of your completed personal wellness wheel as reference in your entry.

3. Based on requisites 4 and 5 from Orem's Universal theory in module 2, activity vs rest, and solitude vs. social interaction explain:
a. Why it is important to balance these areas; and
b. How you will balance these areas in your own life.

4. Develop your own self-care strategy resource drawing from those reviewed in the learning resources and activities in module 2. Explain:
a. What does it involve?
b. How did you develop this resource?
c. How do you see this resource assisting you in the future?
• Draft your responses as four (4) entries in your personal reflective journal in Blackboard. These entries are confidential, only your learning facilitator will review them to check your work progression.
• Compile your final responses from the reflective journal entries into one (1) Word document for your assessment submission.

Attachment:- Self-Care Practices.rar