New Resources! Staff Bulletin Board
What's Stopping You from Reaching Your Wellness Goals?
Calling all ICU Nurses! Come on by and view the new wellness staff bulletin boards in the ICU Breakroom! They are not only full of garden updates, but they have all sorts of research-based wellness tips and tricks for you to review at your leisure. Don't forget to admire the pressed flowers! Feel free to ask Seth Lemons about how to make pressed flowers of your very own (and how pressing flowers can be a wonderful addition to your stress reduction toolkit)!!!
Or you can gander at the following easy reads:
Thursd: How the World's Flowers and Mental Health Work for Wellness
Better Homes and Gardens: How to Press Flowers for a Pretty Memento
Why Dedicate a Lunch to Painting Pumpkins?
Creative Activities to Reduce Stress and Improve Social Bonding
Engaging in creative activities can reduce stress, improve personal wellbeing, and bring us closer to our coworkers. Pulling from the field of art therapy, painting pumpkins is a seasonal activity that allows staff the opportunity to connect with nature while engaging in activities shown to reduce stress, burnout, anxiety and depression. Artistic endeavors have also been shown to increase team morale and cohesion. The magic is not necessarily in the pumpkins, but rather the benefits come from having the opportunity to engage in a task which is creatively stimulating, allows personal expression, and is conducted in a social setting.
For further insight on how creative activities can benefit nurse wellbeing follow the links bellow:
Art Therapy with an Oncology Care Team
Efficacy of art therapy in enhancing mental health of clinical nurses: A meta-analysis
