Sakhya Women's Guidance Cell

Helping nursing students to cope up with stress through Stress Management Workshop

Date: 31^st July

Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00pm

Venue: Thane, Civil Hospital

Participants: 16 female and 2 male

Methodology: Information sharing, action songs, discussion, lecture and meditation exercise.

Today's technologically advanced society has been described by many as being a high-pressured and fast-paced world that is filled with uncertainty and ambiguity, a world that is oftentimes just plain stressful. Students are constantly confronted with important decisions and situations that yield feelings of anxiety, stress, and tension. For example, many students experience stress with regard to exams, class participation, projects, internship, dating, and job interviews. Hence this workshop was held to help the students to manage their study related as well as personal stress effectively.   

 

  During this workshop students asked questions like  how to cope up with the situations when they come across the accident cases, HIV, trauma cases, how to handle tension in friendship, how to control anger.  Through this workshop students were assisted in making some changes in their internal reactions and behaviors toward particularly stressful situations. The students were guided by the meditational exercise in order to manage the stress effectively.

After the session 16% participants approached the social worker to discuss their stress related to studies and they were helped out by the social workers with tips.