Compassion is defined as a sympathetic consciousness of others distress together with a desire to alleviate it (Merriam. Webster.com). It has a fundamental role among the healthcare workers. Especially among nurses, when they are indulging in bedside care for their patients. It helps the patients to relieve their stress and tension. Nurses have to go through different job description during their twelve hours shift. It start from the assessment of the patient, check vital signs, carryout various safety and comfort measures, administering medication and even to participate the resuscitative measures to save the life of a person. During this period due to emotional stress and physical fatigue make a person exhausted and drained. Nurses have to undergo the sane process many days a week for many years. So there is no surprise if any health care worker is emotionally and physically tired and upset. This is called as compassion fatigue. It can be due to the over strain and stress from the work load and demand from the patient and family. Most often it happens due to the continuous work over load, stress, inadequate relaxation time, over demanding. It can leads to the health care workers to be burn out and also leads to secondary traumatization. This assignment explores about the nature and causes of five major concepts of compassion fatigue. It also address the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the care giver and giving examples of coping strategies and resources to be used by the care giver.…
Nursing is concerned with human responses as they relate to the person’s environment whether it is in the hospital or in the community. With the help of the nursing process, nurses assess the person’s environment through the collection of subjective and objective data, perform risk assessments, identify safety hazards, and implement safety practices that will improve the patient’s health status and prevent further injury or…
Much of the day a Nurse Anesthetist will be on his/her feet. Nurse Anesthetists are vulnerable to back injuries because they have to lift and move patients throughout the day. Work can be stressful because of the critical decisions they will have to make that will profoundly influence the outcomes of their patients. Patient care is not only physically challenging but emotionally challenging as well, causing stress. Nurse Anesthetists will have to deal with the anxiety, pain, fear and deaths of their patients which is emotionally demanding. Nurse Anesthetist are expected to comfort their patients, but at the same time remain objective. Nurse Anesthetist can come in contact with infectious diseases and potentially harmful drugs, so they have to follow strict, standardized guidelines to guard against diseases and other danger such as accidental needle sticks and patient outbursts.…
I have came to the conclusion after reviewing the three articles that health care related stress may not always be preventable, however it would be in an organizations best interest to do their best to provide different techniques and programs to assist with stress before a crisis happens to a healthcare worker at their institution.…
The nursing profession requires an individual to be alert, watchful, and prepared. They must monitor patients closely. Concentration and attentiveness declines when a nurse is overloaded with work. Nurses who become fatigued from the work overload can become a danger to themselves and their patients. Medication errors and pressure ulcers are common results from fatigued nurses. Medication errors happen a lot when a nurse loses the ability to concentrate and focus. Pressure ulcers are a result of poor nursing care which can be caused by fatigue. A nurse may be so fatigued by the end of her shift that she does not properly position a patient. Basic care is sometimes put on the back burner, or is delegated to less qualified staff. As well as providing basic nursing care, a nurse must also give report, check patients orders, medications, and labs, all in one shift! This leaves little time to create or maintain a relationship with a patient. Often times, nurses are assigned five or more patients to take care of in one shift. Nurses become stressed from the pressures of the job, and decide to leave the profession all…
"Causes of Correctional Officer Stress and Its Consequences." NICIC.gov:. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 May 2016.…
Sexual coercion is a problem in correctional institutions because there can be inmates intimidated by other inmates. The inmates who suffer from this abuse begin to live in fear. The abusers often prey on those who aren’t as strong, tough or mentally capable of understanding what’s going on. There are also younger victims that are also targets because they are new to the prison system. Most of the victims of this crime will never say anything out of fear that something worse may occur like death.…
Stress is defined as the severity of manifested physical, emotional or mental tension resulting from factors that alters a nurse’s work performance. Careless actions is defined as not paying attention to what they are doing or simply having no care or concern. Medication error-…
“The job is demanding and challenging. Hazards abound because nurses are exposed to infectious disease, chemicals, and violence and the hours can be long.” (LearningExpress (2010, December 8)).…
The goal of a nurse is to promote holistic health and well-being for their clients as well as educate and carry out preventive measures to protect clients from illness and injury. Safety is an issue that can protect both nurses themselves as well as their clients and surrounding community. Ergonomics of nurses and performing in a manner of proper technique protects the nurse directly and the client indirectly. Training for terrorism also affects both nurse and client. Researchers and organizations spend large amounts of time and money to determine the most effective methods and technology to ensure safety and continue the vision of improved nursing care.…
A patient under stress from being in the hospital or dealing with a health problem can be very closed off. They can be mad at everyone which causes miscommunication between the nurses and themselves. It is important for nurses to know how to deal with patients that are under stress because stress does indeed lead to bigger problems.…
Data collection is critical based on the fact that if data is improperly collected, the findings based on that data are worthless (CCN, 2015). Data collection must be consistent, reliable and unbiased. The data collection procedure in this research design started with a structured questionnaire, developed by researchers, based on literature review to assess nurse’s stress factors, workload, satisfaction, and patient care. The sections of the questionnaire were furthered separated into sections, based on demographic data, job satisfaction, and workload. Then a self-developed scale to measure the variables of the study were completed and focused on patient outcomes and quality of patient care. Initial contact with the participants of the study was made with Chief Nursing Officer. Confidentiality was the upmost concern for the study, as confidentiality was promised throughout the study. Secondary data was also used and assessed to view the statistics on the nursing shortage and the increasing nurse workload. The secondary part of the research study also collected from recorded and published data on the specified topics of concern. In addition, a pilot study was carried out by nursing officers of the hospital. Reliability of data collection was a critical concern of the researchers in this study and for this reason, content validity of instruments were used and based on a comprehensive study and…
I’m not sure that I can pick a type of harm that is more detrimental than another, because there are so many factors to consider. If the physical harm suffered will ultimately change the livelihood of the victim, I may consider the physical harm to be the most detrimental. Physical harm seen as the most severe can manifest through psychological and emotional effects, and lead to a variety of mental illnesses. Psychological and emotional harm is very difficult to deal with and was my initial thought when asked to discuss the most detrimental type of harm. This type of harm, as explained in our text can lead to physical issues, so it is as if all of these “harms” can be interrelated even financial harm. In order to deal with physical, psychological,…
Muir-Cochrane E. C. (2015) reported that about nurses experiences of restraint and seclusion usage in short-stay acute old-age psychiatry inpatient units lack of accessible alternatives to restraint and seclusion, indicating that nurses believe there are no effective, accessible alternatives to these practices. Three related themes contribute to this perception. First, an adverse interpersonal environment contributes to restraint and seclusion, which relates to undesirable consequences of poor staff-to-patient relationships. Second, an unfavourable physical environment contributes to aggression and restraint and seclusion use. Third, the practice environment influences the adoption of restraint and seclusion.…
of nurse workplace violence perpetrated by hospital patients or patient visitors. Journal of emergency nursing, 40(3), 218-228.…
