Stress Management In Nursing

Perhaps one the most respected professions on this planet is certainly being a nurse, of any kind, whether you are a Licensed Vocational Nurse, Registered Nurse or a Nursing Assistant, the amount of adoration that follows those jobs around is obvious to most. But one of the better kept details of the downside of being a nurse are often mocked as mistreatment from doctors and administration who belittle them hilariously on TV or patients who are cranky old men who don’t want to take their medication that the nurse had to bend over backwards to get despite it being regular Tylenol.
These are tropes that follow around real nurses who are currently suffering with decades long injustices, bureaucratic red tape and alarmingly high rates of mental
In all the research on stress management for nurses there are two that stand out among all the various reports and professional peer to peer advice, is the necessity for good co-worker relationships and uninterrupted time away from work on a regular basis. This is not to say that there needs to be vacations taken wildly and expensively, just time away from the hospital uninterrupted and regularly. These can be done at the same time, by going out with co-workers and building great relationships outside of work with their fellow nurses those who are under more stress than others can lean on those who understand the most. Simple, yes, easy, not
Why are we having a nurse shortage? Part of the reason for this is an increased difficulty for new nurses to get educated, specialized and skilled nurses are in high demand and there is no streamlined process for getting new students the education necessary to fill these gaps in employment. In addition, there are no long term solutions for keeping the new nurses, there are plenty of incentives when you are first hired, but the burnout rate is going up because there are shrinking numbers of people to help the new nurse