References: Boyle, D.,(2011) Countering Compasison Fatigue: A Requisite Nursing Agenda. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Vol. 6,No.1, Manuscript 2.…
These days’ nurses are ‘doing more and more with less resources’. Our profession has been known as being of a co-dependent nature. This nature is not only reflected in our career choice but also frequently in our family management which can place double the stress on the nurse. Demands on nurses can lead to burnout or compassion fatigue. This condition not only prevents nurses from giving their patients the optimal care they deserve but can also result in a very unhappy life for the nurse them self. Nursing must work hard and work constantly…
When a nurse experiences this type of fatigue, it is important to be aware of what is happening because their current state must be addressed and dealt with in order to prevent further complications. Compassion fatigue “is marked by increased cynicism at work, a loss of enjoyment of our career, and eventually can transform into depression, secondary traumatic stress and stress-related illnesses”(Mathieu, 2007).…
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.…
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…
A nurse can become emotionally and /or physically exhausted, sometimes to the point where the nurse may stop working. The phenomenon described is nursing burnout. This paper will include facts and causes of burnout, individual & environmental factors contributing to burnout, ways to manage and decrease burnout and most importantly burnout prevention.…
Stress is a part of everyday life for health professionals such as nurse’s physicians and hospital administrators. Review of literature has revealed that there are various factors responsible for stress among nurses working in hospital areas. Role workload, role ambiguity, role conflict, group and political pressures, responsibility for persons, under participation, powerlessness, poor peer relations, intrinsic impoverishment, low status, strenuous working conditions, unprofitability of learning on job and inappropriate feedback to be significant predictors of occupational stress among nurses. Nurses with high levels of personal accomplishment perceived a significantly lesser degree of stress. Nurses…
Due to the high demands of a nurse’s profession, becoming compassionate fatigue can happen so easily at some point during his or her career. As busy as a nurse can be, it is important that they take time and recognize warning signs that will soon bring them to a level that will compromise their job. To avoid added stress when caring for patients, a nurse must be competent in her job. When a nurse feels a sense of decreased personal satisfaction and accomplishments, it is added weight on her shoulders. When a patient needs immediate care and the nurse is unsure of what to do next, it can become very stressful very quickly. Having a sense of inadequacy can lead to anger that can be shown during patient care and patients are observing. When a patient senses this, it can lead to anxiety, irritability, and restlessness that can lead to a deteriorating condition for the patient and the…
Nursing staffing has been investigated with the nurses themselves in mind and such studies have included the Schmalenberg and Kramer study of 2009 which sought to establish and assess the factors that influence the perceptions or the opinions of nurses as far as nursing staffing levels are concerned. Nursing staffing has also been studied with regards to the negative effects on the nurses such as nurse burnout and job dissatisfaction such as the study carried out by Aiken et al in 2002. As far as international literature is concerned, most of the studies that look at the impact of nursing staffing on the nurses themselves concentrates on adverse outcomes such as physical injuries, encounters with aggression and violence, sickness and absenteeism, self reports of job satisfaction levels as well as burnout.…
Nurse fatigue is experienced every day in the nursing field, it is the inadequate adaptation and restoration of work energy (Drake, Luna, Georges, & Steege, 2012). Nurse fatigue can be emotional, physical or mental, it can also be a feeling of weariness, tiredness, lack of energy or having trouble performing at work (Drake, Luna, Georges, & Steege, 2012). Also it can be caused by working long shifts and causing exhaustion from staff burnout, leading to an adverse effect on patient outcome. It is a huge threat to patient safety. Fatigue can also cause a negative impact on nurse safety, and there is an increased risk in causing injury with a worker that is tired (Maust, 2015). Studies have shown that nursing fatigue is related to the shift length nurses work, and nursing performance can be impaired and increases the chance of making an error (Maust, 2015). The nurses who work 12.5 hours have a risk three times greater for making errors (Mason, Leavitt & Chaffee, 2014).…
Whether it is at work, at home, at hospital, or even on vacation a person can experience stress. Stress is found anywhere at any time, but can affect each individual in a different way. According to the book Interpersonal relationships, “stress represents a natural physiologic, psychological, and spiritual response to the presence of a stressor (Arnold, 2016, p 309). Patients in the hospital can experience high stress levels that lead to various communication problems. To fix this issue a nurse needs to know how stress can affect the communication, and methods to help communicate with the stressed patients without causing anymore more problems.…
Nurses are the largest group of health care professionals providing direct care in hospitals. However, they suffer from job burnout…
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…
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…
“Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep and energy; nurses are rarely short on caring,” a quote said by Sharon Hudacek, where she expresses that nurses are caring even when they are exhausted. Being a registered nurse is not only an important job, but a privilege also. These people have decided that they want to spend they lifetime and career caring for other people and making sure other people are healthy. Registered nurses are people who will take care of others, even if they are exhausted, hungry, or not feeling too well themselves. There are certain roles a registered nurse has along with the skills the job requires. The career outlook is successful and there are many different types of nurses and different working environments. These nurses also have strict rules to ensure none of the patients are injured while being taken care of. All of this help contribute to the safety of the patients and workers so nobody is harmed. Nurses have job requirements and require skill, have a successful job outlook, have a variety of jobs and working environments and have a variety of hours to work.…
