How To Be An Advocate For Your Own Wellbeing

As a nurse or a nurse’s aide, I know you work hard every day taking care of your patients.  But do you take care of yourself?  Don’t wait until you are injured on the job to start taking care of yourself.  Yes, I know your job is to help the patients as much as you can.  But you can’t help them if you’re hurt, can you?  So be sure to speak up when you need help to care for a patient.  Hospitals are understaffed.  Again, I know.  But they’ll have even less people if the staff keep injuring themselves trying to do their jobs with insufficient assistance.  If you need help lifting a patient, don’t let that doctor bully you into doing it by yourself.  Get the help you need.  You know what they say: the best defense is a good offense.

Now how about your home life.  Are you feeling as overworked at home as you are at work?  Well, that’s not good for your health, is it?  Make some changes to get the help you need at home.  When you are stressed at home, you are stressed at work.  There’s no denying it.  We try to leave work at work and home at home, but it doesn’t always happen, does it?  If you leave the house angry or stressed, you’re going to show up at work angry or stressed (unless you learn some techniques to relax during your commute, of course).  Figure out a way to get some help at home.  Kick that lazy husband in the buttocks, get those kids away from the computer.  Worst comes to worst, tell your lazy husband you are going to hire a cleaning lady to help you.  Maybe that will get his butt in gear.

More about the home life, and taking care of yourself.  You would agree that strong healthy bodies don’t get hurt as easily, right?  And if they do they hurt, a strong body heals quicker and easier, right?  So make sure you are eating right to stay healthy, exercising to de-stress, and getting as much sleep as possible for healing and restoration.  (I won’t say “enough” sleep, because I’m sure that won’t happen)  Your beauty rest should take precedence of a dirty kitchen any day.

Now, you can get back to work! :)

If you have been injured on the job and need help, click here to contact Alegant Law.