Balancing Social and Academic Life Essay

Balancing academic responsibilities and social relationship is complicated. Sometimes, if we just focused on our academic responsibilities, we are setting aside our friends and our family; we set aside the fact that there is a real world you have to have fun and discover. On the other hand, some of us don’t care about our responsibilities on academic especially in college level, because we think our social lives are more important than it is. If you want to be gratified you ought to be balanced in everything that you do and want, that’s why planning and defining moments to each particular activity you do is so important. This research is aimed at providing healthcare professionals with ideas and information regarding student nurses on how they balance their focus and time between academic responsibilities and social relationships. It was also prepared for the purpose of unveiling the effect of which to academic performances. The gathering of data will come from the nursing students of World Citi Colleges from first year to third year. Proper balancing of two certain priorities would lead to an improvement and subsequently much better effect on academic performances of a student. The interest in this subject was motivated by the researcher’s desire to observe the effects on academic performance from how nursing students balance such priorities as a student. Will they spend their time on studying more than they socialize? Or maybe it’s more important for them to hang out with friends and enjoy life to the fullest rather than to study? In this case, is it sacrificing one of our priorities? Could each student able to balance their time or is it just the idea of passing the course? Whatever would be their choice, it may affect their academic performances. These are associated decisions that will determine whether the outcome would be positive or negative. To be able to balance academic responsibilities and social relationship requires thorough management of our time. This is a defying part of being able to meet the academic requirement and to have time with our family and friends. Especially in nursing, there are lots of academic requirement that is needed to pass through the whole course thus, interfering with our social relationship. It takes the time of our social lives, for some this may not be a big deal in other cases social relationship and academic responsibility is a difficult task to make. Most common students in nursing are teenagers, at this stage in life they are focused in self-care; sleeps late and takes nap. Most of their time are given to discover themselves and how big life is. The trouble of studying more than 12 hours a week interferes with the social life and this really affects their school performance. Some others set aside parties or night-life to do homework, even goes to bed early to avoid falling asleep during class and duty hours. At school they become socialized to the role of a nurse and hear countless stories about â€Å"responsible nurses† who put their patients, their employers, and virtually everyone else first in their lives. Statement of the Problem The research aims to investigate the nursing students on Balancing Academic Responsibilities and social life: effect to the academic performance of first year to third year college students of World Citi College, Quezon City Campus. Specifically, sought to answer the following questions: 1.What is the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of: 1.1Age 1.2Gender 1.3Civil Status 2.How do nursing student balance their social life in terms of: 2.1 Family 2.2 Friends 2.3 Time 3.How do balancing social life affect their academic performance in terms of: 3.1 Academic Outcome 3.2 Student Character 4.How do balancing academic responsibility affect their academic performance in terms of: 4.1 Academic Outcome 4.2 Student Character 5.Is there any significant relationship between balancing academic responsibilities, social life and in the student’s academic performance? Purposes of the study 1.To determine the demographic profile of the respondents. 2.To describe how nursing students balance their social life in terms of family, friends and time. 3.To investigate how do balancing social life affect their academic performance. 4.To find out how do balancing academic responsibility affect their academic performance. 5.To know is there any significant relationship between balancing academic responsibilities, social life and in the student’s academic performance. Significance of the Study This study will benefit the college coordinators, guidance counselors, faculty/professors, students and parents making them aware of how most students balanced their time between academic responsibilities and social relationships, thus, finding out its effect on their academic performance. College coordinators/Professors: they will be prompted to suggest and promote better activities that would encourage students to be more focused on balancing their time for their academic and social life at the same time. Students: the findings of the study course will help them increase their awareness on their strengths and weaknesses regarding their academic performance. One way of helping the students is to give them appropriate attention, and care as well as patient and love in order for them to build up their confidence and best in everything they do. Also, to help them mold the right perspective in life for them to know and feel that they exist in this world. Parents: they can guide, give attention and support their children in relation to their academic performance in school, may it be for their academic improvement or social growth. They can also recognize and identify what are the strengths and weaknesses of their children for them to know how to support and help them to gain security and trust to themselves. In addition, this may also build up the child’s foundation, and will do their best to work hard on their studies. Future researchers: the data gathered from this research could be helpful as an addition resource material for those who are inclined in doing this kind of study. Researcher could make use of the findings of this study in formulating a new hypotheses that is need to be tested in order to support the theories concerning this matter made by early theorists. Scope and Limitations of the Study This study is focused on balancing academic responsibilities and social life; it’s effect to the academic performance of nursing students. This study will be confined within the World Citi Colleges Nursing Department. Respondents of the Study will be represented by the first year to third year nursing students who are officially enrolled in first semester school year 2013-2014. This research will be done in five month’s time. It does not seek to include 4th year students because they are more experienced about the setting and adjusted themselves to college. Other extra-curricular activities of the student will not be included. Conceptual Framework Assumption The researchers assure that all of the information gathered from the student respondents with regards to their profile, balancing academic responsibility and social life are certified, accurate and reliable enough to for this study. The respondents of the study are the 1st year to 3rd year nursing students of World Citi Colleges, Quezon City Campus.