All nurses and doctors need stress reduction during COVID-19, no doubt. Caregiver burnout was always a painful problem. The doctors, nurses, lab technicians, respiratory therapists, emergency services workers, nursing home managers are very busy today helping their patients. As a result, all health care workers experience fatigue which is a state of chronic physical and mental distress and exhaustion. Learn here about my Free Stress Reduction for healthcare workers.
Practical Fatigue Management Tips for healthcare workers:
- Prioritize sleep by decreasing off-work obligations as much as possible, until feeling fully rested.
- Use relaxation apps or techniques to aid in sleep onset, if you have trouble falling asleep (longer than 15-25 minutes),
- Create a pre-sleep, bedtime routine and keep your sleeping environment comfortable, dark, cool, and quiet.
- Avoid alcohol, spicy foods, and nicotine for at least 2-3 hours prior to sleep time.
- You should avoid caffeine at least 5 hours before bedtime (longer if sensitive to caffeine).
- Avoid sunlight/bright lights 1.5 hours prior to sleep, as it can stimulate your circadian system to promote wakefulness.
- Use strategically timed naps to decrease fatigue. Short naps (15-30 minutes) can help to decrease fatigue during work hours. Longer naps (1.5 hours) can help prevent fatigue before working night-shift.
- Find a fellow worker to be a buddy for checking-in on how you each are coping.
- Watch for signs and symptoms of fatigue in yourself and coworkers (e.g., yawning, difficulty concentrating, emotional instability, flawed logic, poor communication).
- Report to a manager when you feel too fatigued to work.
Free Stress Reduction For Healthcare Workers can help you feel better.
Caregiver burnout can happen in any caregiver-patient relationship, but the risk is heightened in times of increased stress. You may be suffering from caregiver burnout if you experience any of these problems:
- Hopelessness
- Overwhelming anxiety
- Sleep problems
- Difficulty coping with everyday tasks
You can reduce physician burnout with help of hypnosis.
You can’t change the COVID-19 situation but you can change your mind!
I am sure you know that there is a mind/body connection. So what?- you may ask me? Well, if you work very long hours under super pressure and your mind is full of fears and anger, you are losing your vital energy! As a result, your body is not able to maintain own wellness. Your immune system is getting weak. This is not good! You have to reduce your stress, in order to stay healthy, strong, happy and successful during coronavirus outbreak and after!
Some doctors and nurses use alcohol to reduce stress. Well, it depends on you, but alcohol doesn’t change your mind. Your fears are still there, right? The good news is you are able to control your mind during COVID -19 pandemic. Actually, every normal person is able to control own mind during stress, but not everyone knows how to do it. I have created stress reduction an audio recording for health care workers like you.
Would you like to listen to my audio relaxation MP3 to relax and feel better?
It is FREE to download! Just push the button. Enjoy! Please never listen to my hypnotic audio program while driving a vehicle!
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My name is Alexander Ivlev. As a certified hypnotist, I help people relax and feel better!