Professional Resilience Essay

Case management practice has a strong emphasis on concentrating on the needs of others and most case management staff struggle to find time and energy for activities outside of the workplace (Fink-Samnick, 2009). To advocate for my own and others physical, mental, social and spiritual self-renewal, I plan to continue to refine my awareness and skill at self-reflection and self-analyses. By being able to recognize signs of professional and personal stress, fatigue, and burnout, I will be able to explore and initiate behaviors and techniques to keep both myself and others healthier. Strategies for self-care and renewal include having a group of professionals that you can meet with and interact with, cultivate relationships with friends and family, socialize outside of work, exercise, eat healthy, enjoy healthy recreational hobbies and activities, and follow policies and procedures to guide practice for both ethical and complex cases (Bowman, 2007). Another practice that has benefit in stress reduction is mindfulness-based stress reduction. This practice has been shown to be a good strategy for health care professionals to be self-reflective, lessen burnout, and enhance patient
Professional resilience is a health care professional’s pledge to attain a balance between work stressors and challenges, and develop professional values and career longevity. Strategies to foster resilience include valuing your “professional self”, recognizing that you will present burnout to others, forming positive contacts with colleagues and peers, making goals and achieving validation, networking professionally, taking breaks, using creative visualization, allow yourself to change perspective, laughing daily, working on deep breathing, developing a grounding list, going for a walk, releasing your frustration quietly, and frequently revising your goals and priorities (Fink-Samnick,