If you’re Stressing Out, You’re Doing it Right!

If you’re Stressing Out, You’re Doing it Right!

We all know that stress is almost a daily concern. We have already learned how to deal with it and overcome general barriers it continually sets in front of us. There are some periods of time when we are not dealing with daily routine stress. What we are dealing with is a stress overdose that it seems like cannot be managed or overcome.

Being a nursing student means you have to override day by day similar overdoses of stress. The nursing student life is full of engagements, most of which are usually impeding daily normal and healthy routine habits.

Related: Taking Proper Care of Your Scrubs How stress is being defined Usually stress has been associated with a great number of symptoms. Below we will be listing those that have been most commonly reported in the case studies and different articles published on this are of concern: o Low levels of energy o Frequent unbearable headaches o Irritable bowel syndrome, stomach irregularities such as diarrhea, constipation, nausea or events of vomiting o Different body part aches and pains o Rapid heart palpitations and pain in the chest o Frequent episodes of insomnia o Events of sudden infections or colds

Stress symptoms among nursing students Being a nursing student means you will be in close physical contact with patients of differential diagnosis. Thus, once you might experience one of the above stress symptoms, you might misdiagnose it as a health issue coming from one of your patients. This is, in fact, another difficulty that nursing students have to deal with in the course of their nursing studies.

Once they find a few instances to dedicate themselves, students can reach the proper conclusion and understand that the signals their body is sending are stress symptoms, rather than a specific health issue coming from close contact with their patients.

Usually, dealing with stress is not that easy. It becomes even harder when you are an overloaded nursing student. One of the key components that can help during the fight with stress, is relax. But, in order to calm down and relax time is required. Nursing students do not have enough time in a 24hour day.

What if stress symptoms weren’t a negative sign?

Usually, once we feel and recognize the stress symptoms afflicting us, we start believing that we are not able to succeed in the related task or job. We start feeling demotivated which immediately orients us to a failed approach.

We are not able to consider stress as a beneficiary element to our success road. We have been continuously suggested and oriented that stress is a negative element that should be suppressed the soonest possible.

Related: Licensed Practical Nurses(LPNS) For instance, let us consider some of the main stress symptoms and their meaning once you are a nursing student.

1. Low levels of energy Being a student it usually means you are young, healthy enough and full of energy. It is all about the age. But, what if being young and healthy and still experiencing a lack of energies. Did you ever wonder that this loss of energy is not coming from nothing? Instead, there are a number of not related to health conditions that are causing you to feel a continuous lack of stamina or energy deprivation. Being a nursing student involves a really tough and busy routine. Following it as per the paper, it means you are not skipping any class or assignment and it also means that you are consuming considerable amounts of energy. Thus, once you feel tired, it means you have already been doing a great job.

2. Frequent unbearable headache Once you are not suffering from migraine or any other similar issue, but still experiencing troublesome events of headache, you should be aware that insomnia might be the cause behind it. How many hours are you spending to study over the night? How many hours are you spending to read and prepare for next exams during the early mornings? Being a nursing student we can say that you are sacrificing countless hours of sleep in order to dedicate yourself and mind to study and practice. Thus, once you are afflicted by these terrible headaches, you should be well aware of the fact

that you have already done your part. You have engaged yourself at certain levels of responsibility towards your future profession that mean succeeding is almost a certainty.

3. Irritable bowel syndrome, stomach irregularities diarrhea, constipation, nausea or events of vomiting

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Do you remember the last time you sat down at the kitchen table and ate something healthy and decent that was not bought at the next market but home prepared? It has been revealed that nursing students are number one consumers of the junk food and food containers found on market shelves.

Thus, it means that they are not being replenished with the necessary ingredients and nourishment that the body and mind require in order to process their functions properly.

Once you are a nursing student, you have no time to allocate for your healthy eating routine, and that is why irritable bowel syndrome symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, constipation and likewise might appear at a certain moment during your studies. There is no need to become demotivated, these symptoms mean that you have been highly focused on your studies and nursing arrangements. All you need is taking just a couple of days to rehab and detoxify from all that junk food you have already consumed. Being a nursing student, you now have all the necessary information on detoxification.

4. Rapid heart palpitation and pain in the chest It is true that an increased heartbeat is a sign to be concerned in terms of heart health. It is also true that if we experience pain in the chest we might become concerned on our heart. But, if we have already undergone physical examinations and the results have been positive, it means that there is nothing to worry about. What is happening right here is responsibility. We have been responsibly dedicated to our future profession at these unlimited boundaries that, at the very first “relax mode” moment, our heart immediately starts to palpitate. It is requiring a higher level of blood circulation. It is requiring the level it has been accustomed to whilst we were engaged in our extreme endeavour as nursing students. Thus, we might have no need to trouble over it, just be proud of ourselves and the “beyond human” life style we managed in order to achieve the best as a nursing student.

We consider a nursing student a future professional who will need to undergo a stressful long journey to achieve the final goal. Considering that

in many cases he or she might feel demotivated, it’s necessary to say that stress is not always harmful. Many times stress can act as a success initiator or sacrifice demonstration. Thus, it is very important to maintain high levels of self-motivation and satisfaction in terms of what has already been achieved during the course of the studies as a nursing student.

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