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Posted By: My ideas on 2008-10-15
In Reply to: Tips on how to focus, would - appreciate it.
This is a checklist I ask myself (and what I do for them) when I have a problem, which is rare.
1. Get enough sleep. You can't function on less than 7 and it really needs to be between 8 and 9. Makes more difference after a week of adequate sleep than anything else there is to do for what you describe.
2. Eat. Food is not a reward and not a punishment, it is a necessity. During a shift, I do sip some dark roasted coffee, it is true and that isn't the best, but I don't do tons of it. For food, I stick to fruit, veggies and lean, low-fat protein. NO STARCH or high-fat food. I can eat those things at the end of the shift, but not at the beginning.
Your brain needs glucose to function. Give is longer acting food and it'll work better for longer. Light snacking works really well to boost energy intermittently so that you have a constant flow of it.
3. Get up and stretch. There is nothing wrong with a break and if you don't take one every couple of hours, you aren't taking enough of them. I will sometimes go for a short walk and come back to work. I am gone 10 minutes tops and I more apt to concentrate better once I do it.
4. Lastly, could this be the work you do? The best decision I ever made about boredom was to move to acute care from clinic, and from a dull little hospital to a big one.
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