7 Proven Benefits of Positive Thinking

1. Decreased negative stress.
2. Greater resistance to catching the common cold.
3. A sense of well-being and improved health.
4. Reduced risk of coronary artery disease.
5. Easier breathing if you have certain lung diseases, such as emphysema.
6. Better coping skills during hardships.
7. Increased quality of life.

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"America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system." President Barack Obama

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Happy Nurses's Week to all members of that esteemed profession!

Clinical Scenarios with High Risk for Second Victim Response

There are many different types of clinical events which can evoke a second victim response. Examples of high risk situations that may induce a stress response include the following:
 Unanticipated clinical event involving a pediatric patient
 Unexpected patient death
 Preventable harm to patient
 Multiple patients with bad outcomes within a short period of time within one clinical area
 Patient who ‘connects’ to health care professional’s own family
 Long term care relationship with patient death
 Clinician experiencing his or her first patient death
 Failure to detect patient deterioration in timely manner
 Death in a young adult patient
 Notification of pending litigation plans
 Community high-profile patient/event
 Health care professional who experienced needle stick exposure with high-risk patient
 Death of a staff member or spouse of a staff member

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