3.6 Resilience
Succeed through adversity
Resilience is the ability to thrive while overcoming obstacles. It is the ability to accept difficult situations and adapt in order to move forward. An individual with Resilience skill is capable of coping with stress, emotional upheaval, and pressure. They have the mindset that their skills and abilities are dynamic, not fixed, allowing them to work through hard times to a better future.
Excelling in Resilience as a Job Skill means:
You are:
- Self-reliant
- Responsible
- Self-Driven
- Mature
- Someone who will admit their mistakes and own their problems
- Positive/optimistic
- Able to work through difficult situations to find positive solutions
Others see that you:
- Earn respect from your peers and colleagues
- Are regarded as mature
- Stay calm under pressure
- Know when to ask for help
- Find answers
- Are successful
Resilience and Pre-Health Science
In PHS you will have many opportunities to develop the Job Skill of Resilience. Below are just two examples of times you will work on resilience in the PHS program:
- Due to the rigour of the program, time-management skills required to be successful, as students will be handling a large volume of lectures, quizzes, tests, online assignments, and exams.
- Level one courses are all pre-requisites for level two. Students must recognize areas for improvement and not give up, but use the many resources in the program, such as tutorials, office hours, and additional practice work, as well as the College facilities such as the Learning Centre and study groups.
I once read a quote from an Emergency Room physician who referred to Respiratory Therapists as; “the silent heroes during a crisis”, and couldn’t help but agree. To me a pivotal trait of a good Respiratory Therapist is keeping a cool head in tense situations.
“4.6 Resilience” from Working in Play: Planning for a Career in the Recreation and Leisure Industry in Canada by Linda Whitehead is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
