Time Management Reply on of your classmate with one refrence

I find myself, personally & professionally, spending most of my time managing the tasks ahead of me, and preparing for how to facilitate them. Personally this includes: our schedules at school, sports, church, meals, and family time. Professionally this includes: my patients needs, their medications, forward movement towards discharge from the hospital for my patients, team needs, and mine and my coworker's breaks. I don't think I ever expected it to be this time consuming because I did have good examples from my siblings and parents of how you need to take time to rest and refresh. Therefore, I focused on that more as a child because that was when I had their attention versus knowing what all went on behind the scenes in their day to day planning. I certainly never knew how busy a neurology floor was until I dove in. There is not often time to take a break or even think between tasks. While nursing clinicals are great experiences they do not give a full scope of the duty ahead. You rarely get a full load of responsibility at clinicals like the floor nurses do. 

I will work out time in the morning when I would usually sit and read my leisure reading to read half of what I normally have been. This will allow me time to check out the discussions on a regular basis and wrap up any loose ends that I need to for the week. I will also have some quiet time on Sunday to get started for the week, while my husband reads to my daughter, instead of me reading to her. Also, on Friday afternoons before we have family night, I will take some time to be sure I don't need to complete anything else for the week. As for professionally, I will take a time out, if you will, after I get report and prior to entering my patient's room for my first assessment, to review the tasks at hand for the day and decide who needs to be seen first. "Determining which tasks are most important or urgent requires deliberate thought because the student has not yet learned to see the big picture or gained the skill to recognize quickly what is most urgent or most important in each clinical situation; this level of thinking is often difficult for the novice"(Benner, 2010, as cited in Masters, 2020). This quote applies to both my personal and professional situations. There is thought and when it is deliberate it helps troubleshoot and alleviate bumps in the road like unneeded frustration from my family or my patients. It is important to anticipate, and part of my role as a nurse and a mom is to help transitions and plans to go smoothly to the best of my ability. Professionalism is accountability. We know that we are accountable for care that includes morals, ethics, and humanistic principals. 

I want to be better at not procrastinating and taking a bite out of the week each day instead of midweek or at the end of the week. As was highlighted in the Success Planning portion of our reading to name a few: know our strengths and challenges, keep up with class each week, and identify motivators. "Nonetheless, routine, which brings about a sense of predictability, sense of time control and familiarity, is relevant to time management. A routine not only comprises a sequence of activities or tasks that need to be completed, but also the duration of these activities and the speed with which these are carried out. A routine has a pace that can be altered as the situation demands" (Waterworth, 2003). This so beautifully applies to my professional role as a nurse as well. We know how often we have to alter our plans in our nursing tasks, but we can alter when the plan is routine. Time management is what allows this as well as knowing it is part of our professional role to see these plans carried out with safety and patient-centered care at the heart of what we do. We also have Perspectives available to us through Chamberlain that offers 24/7 assistance with personal challenges we may encounter.

References

Benner, P.E., Sutphen, M., Leonards, V., & Day, L. (2010) Educating nurses: A call for radical transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jose - Bass. 

Master, K. (2020) Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Waterworth, S. (2003) Time management Strategies in Nursing Practice retrieved from https://doi-org.chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02740.x