Category: Program Outcome #5

Program outcome 5: Demonstrate awareness and skills to sustain personal health and well-being.

I truly found it difficult to pick and choose which activities to present that represent the Program Outcomes. There were so many that demonstrated multiple aspects of all the outcomes that choosing was a challenge. For my last submission, I choose a paper that, in a way represents my awareness and importance of behavior change that effects my health. As a health care worker I hardly ever applied what I have learned towards myself. This paper demonstrates how I was beginning to apply and analyze my teaching for myself. I have had several health issues since I wrote this paper but this was the start of becoming and staying healthy so that I could help others. This paper demonstrates foundational knowledge of health, how interconnectedness helps with good health, communication skills to a support group, leadership in following threw with the project and the skills to see it completed. This activity that I completed for a small part in a class is typical of most of the assignments in pursuit of the degree. It shows how even a small project can be well rounded and applied in many areas. I am grateful for the opportunity to complete this Health Care Degree, it truly has enriched my life. To view the paper that goes with this activity, Please click here. Activity 5.3

Program outcome 5: Demonstrate awareness and skills to sustain personal health and well-being.

Health promotion begins at home. As a leader, I should be able to model a good quality of life. This does not need to be done with material things, but in how your attitude towards events is expressed. This paper on the 50 joys in my life demonstrates my attitude towards life in a limited way. A list of 50 things only gives a glimpse into the skills and attitudes that we use on a daily basis to keep ourselves healthy. At the same time making this list also demonstrated our awareness of our own well-being. As a general rule, I now believe that we all should make this type of list at least yearly, to remind ourselves of the attitudes we want to engage in with this world. If I follow these simple 50 joys, I would be very healthy indeed. This is a paper that I should print out and laminate to hang on my bathroom mirror to keep in my awareness how simple it is to sustain my personal health to the degree that I would like and have a great quality of life. To view the paper that goes with this activity, Please click here. Activity 5.2

Program outcome 5: Demonstrate awareness and skills to sustain personal health and well-being.

This Program Outcome was a bit of a surprise to me. I did not expect a college degree that was intended to help you achieve management level in health care to take into account that the student should practice what was taught for themselves. Too often Healthcare is all about giving and never for doing for yourself. This paper was written in 2012 just as I was starting to take a major life change and become very ill. I had to stop the pursuit of this health care degree for a while to pursue my own health. This paper begins to demonstrate that I was already thinking about what I saw in the future for my health care. As I look back on this paper, I see that I have indeed kept some of the same attitude that helps me be well. I explore how I have seen successful aging in my own family, how humor is important to a good quality of life, and how I will most likely continue working one way or another as long as I can. This paper also demonstrates my evolving goals of my own personal health and quality of life. To view the paper that goes with this activity, Please click here. Activity 5.1