Here are some final points that might help you manage your time more effectively, while you chip away at stress. Build time into your schedule for interruptions and unforeseen occurrences. Keep a list of five-minute tasks you can do any time you are kept waiting or between other tasks. Get up an hour earlier. Stop watching television.
Stress is a pervasive twentieth century phenomena, a frequent companion to nurses.
By becoming competent in several techniques that help to manage stress, nurses can subvert its ill effects. Carolyn Chambers Clark, ARNP, EdD has been a family therapist since 1966 and is an independent practitioner at Bay Area Psychological Services in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has written extensively about family systems interventions and taught the subject at Pace University and the University of Tampa. The emergency function of the medulla in pain and the major emotions. Am J Physiol.