Coping strategies are triggered by the behavior, thinking and emotional processes that people use to actively approach sources of stress. Healthcare is a stressful profession and can take a toll on physical, emotional and mental well-being. All healthcare professions face a large majority of stressors within their activities (e.g. mental health), including time constraints, workload, multiple roles and emotional problems. It requires you to take care of other people, so to take care of other people effectively, you need to take care of yourself and your well-being. To take care of yourself, you must use resilience skills such as optimism, hope and overcoming the effects of stress and stressors that can cause depression, anxiety, frustrations, irritability and anger. Healthcare workers work long hours and face the ongoing challenge of doing much with less (e.g., staff) and patient deaths. Furthermore, the healthcare environment is constantly changing, thus leading to communication problems and an increased potential for conflict among staff resulting in high levels of anxiety and stress. life-enhancing resilience skills reduce the risk of communication problems, errors, and in the workforce lead to efficient delivery of quality and optimal healthcare services, which is why resilience is very important in healthcare workers. Resilient workers are able to take care of themselves and others around them. Resilient employees are motivated, can control stress and also control it
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