ACTIVITY AND EXERCISE
Dear Students,
How are you with your online classes? What do you feel with prolonged sitting? How is it staying most of the time at home? Do you still have other forms of activities? Do you still exercise? Well, we have to keep our body moving to keep us going. Having activity and exercise has many benefits to us. It helps us to maintain our physical functioning as well as improving our psychological and spiritual wellbeing. It is a matter of our balancing our time between our activities. Prolong immobility or inactivity might to help us to cope well during this pandemic.
This study guide focuses on activity and exercise. You will learn about the fundamental concepts in activity and exercise. Nurses play a significant role to help patient perform activity and exercise to maintain functional capacity, improve recovery, and achieve quality of life. However, safety precautions must be observed to avoid inducing harm to the patient. A systematic approach using the nursing process is significant to carefully develop, implement, and evaluate patient care plan pertaining to activity and exercise. For your optimal learning, this study guide has activities and learning resources. I hope that you enjoy and move your body as you get through this study guide.