Habits of Healthy Lifestyle among Nurses

Abstract

Relevance of the study. Nurses are responsible for many peoples health and their work required a good personal well-being. To achieve good personal well-being it is important to understand the meaning, composition and importance of healthy lifestyle. When the nurse is feeling good in personal she can take care of patient better and teach them about importance of healthy lifestyle. The nurse should be the example for others. Research aim: To analyse the habits of healthy lifestyle among nurses. Tasks of bachelor‘s thesis: 1. To describe healthy lifestyle conception and value in nurses professional activity. 2. To reveal habits of healthy lifestyle among nurses. 3. To determine harmful habits prevalence among nurses. 4. To establish healthy lifestyle appliances in professional activity of nurses. Methods: scientific literature analysis; quantitative questionnaire method; results analysis Conclusions: 1. The habits of healthy lifestyle can affects nurses personal health and working quality. Despite that nurses have knowledges about healthy lifestyle they do not always propagate it herself and trasfer knowledges to patients. 2. The research reveals that the biggest part of nurses are trying to follow the healthy lifestyle guidelines. The biggest part of nurses try to eat healthy and be physically active. 3. The harmful habits prevalence among nurses are very low. Most of nurses dot not smoke and do not use alcohol. 66% of nurses do not use alcohol at all and 78% do not smoke. 4. The nurses aspire to find out the patient‘s habits of healthy lifstyle. Depend on situation and diseases nurses are give the advices and teach patient to live healthier.