Quiz 3: Self-care

Please choose the one, most correct answer to each question or statement.

1. What is self-care?
   • Making sure we do not get more weekend duties than others.
   • Always looking neat at work.
   • Making sure we are physically and emotionally strong.
2. Why is self-care and self-compassion important?
   • We take care of ourselves, so we can take care of others.
   • Because it prevents us running out of sick leave.
   • Because it prevents the health service being short of staff, especially over weekends.
3. What will help us take care of our mental health?
   • Recognise that we are at risk of developing mental health problems.
   • Believe that as trained carers we are unlikely to develop mental health problems.
   • Use sleeping pills so that we can get a good night sleep before going on duty.
4. What are personal boundaries?
   • The border of the village or town where we live and work.
   • The rules or values we have about what is allowed and what is not.
   • The highest grade we passed at school.
5. Why are work boundaries important?
   • They make sure there is a parking space available when we get to work.
   • They make sure that psychotic patients cannot escape from psychiatric wards.
   • They give clear guidelines to our scope of practice.
6. Why must we not take gifts from patients?
   • It will make your colleagues feel jealous.
   • Patients must know they can get help even when they have nothing to give.
   • It is illegal in most hospitals.
7. Why is feeling connected important for care providers?
   • Everyone needs to feel connected and that they belong.
   • It is easier to ask a colleague for a lift home after work.
   • You are more likely to be offered employment if you are married.
8. What is mindfulness?
   • A way to help people stop smoking.
   • Memory training to help us study better.
   • Knowing what we are thinking and doing at every moment.
9. Will self-compassion make us weak?
   • Yes, as you should rather be thinking about others.
   • Only if you practise too often.
   • It will not make you weak but it will help you develop resilience.
10. When should we practise self-care?
    • All the time.
    • Only when we expect to have a stressful day.
    • Only if we are stressed and not managing at work.