As a peer student in Sarah’s situation, I would offer her mental and physiological support at the beginning, this is because as she is away from her home to a different place and more over she is living alone in a single room flat, this makes her home sick. By giving mental and physiological support this builds confident in Sarah.
As Sarah doesn’t enjoy eating her food alone, I will make some arrangement during the mealtime to sit together and have food. Social support is also very much needed for Sarah as she don’t know anybody in Edinburgh. I will arrange a city trip with my other friends where we can give a friendly welcome to Edinburgh.
I will introduce Sarah to the Napier student association who arranges the fresher’s week, which will be a great opportunity for Sarah where she can meet a lot of new friends who take part in lot of activities, like joining the nursing union, getting some idea about where she can spent her weekends, such as good restaurant and get some tips where she can get cheap tickets for buses, flights and train, also she will have an opportunity to meet students from her own place.
At university she can get support from students union, pastoral team, and personal development tutor (PDT) she can get help from her module leader as well as from the Liberian which will be a great help to find book, journals and articles which is quite difficult for students like Sarah coming from abroad. The university can give advice regarding busseries ,tuition fees and council tax. The university offers the guide line on her studies and finding part time jobs. The university has got gym facility which is cheaper for students, I would encourage Sarah for going to the gym and I would give advice on her health and tell ...
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Factors that contribute to stress include: Work conditions and environment; occupational category; age and gender; household income, relationships and social support or lack of it; poor housing conditions; physical health issues; poverty; migration and cultural orientation, traumatic life events. By occupational category, stress-related illnesses in healthcare professionals including nurses were high compared to all other jobs. HSE (2016); Gibb et al (2010).
This journal article was peer reviewed, included exclusion criteria, and offered solutions to problems. It was informative and shed light on ethical issues that nurses face. As emphasized in this article, there is little attention placed on recognizing ethical issues and reducing nursing stress. This article not only informs us of these ethical issues, but provides us with ways in which change can be implemented to solve these problems. However, that being said, because this study only surveyed nurses within the four census regions of the United States (California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Ohio), other areas of stress and ethical issues could have easily been neglected.
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The article examined many studies conducted to measure stress and burnout in nurses and found that the environment and conditions in the workplace have a great deal to do with the perceived stress levels. In the article, it speaks of the definition of stress as being a negative factor that is perceived to pose a threat to the perceiver. This definition goes on to state that one person may see an event as stressful, while another may view the same situation as exhilarating. The important part of this “new definition” is that we can choose, by manipulation of our attitudes, to view our lives as stress filled or an enjoyable ride. One’s perception is a big factor in workplace stress.
Social determinants of health encompasses ethnicity, gender and social class. It is seen as the essential determinant to structure and functions to society, the factors that contribute are social, economic, cultural and political (Liamputtong, Fanany, & Verrinder, 2012, p. 13). For example a female or male from a low socioeconomic background and from an ethnic minority group is more likely to have poorer health in all aspects than those who are from a majority ethnic group and high social standing (Liamputtong, Fanany, & Verrinder, 2012, p. 14).
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The nursing profession is one of the most physically, emotionally, and mentally taxing career fields. Working long shifts, placing other’s needs before your own, dealing with sickness and death on a regular basis, and working in a high stress environment are all precursors to developing occupational burnout in the nursing profession. Burnout refers to physical, emotional and mental exhaustion, which can lead to an emotionally detached nurse, who feels hopeless, apathetic, and unmotivated. Burnout extends beyond the affected nurse and begins to affect the care patients receive. Researchers have found that hospitals with high burnout rates have lower patient satisfaction scores (Aiken et al 2013). There are various measures that nurses can take
Nurses Joe and Sarah have been working in a medical surgical unit that has been experiencing a nursing shortage, which has led to an increase in the workload. Sarah has been feeling the physical effects of the stress and feels there is a lack of management support, while Joe experiences some feelings of being overwhelmed, but tries to use it as learning experiences. Joe has developed positive methods of coping, while Sarah is quickly heading towards burnout. Implications and Conclusions The information provided in the literature has great implications for practice in many units, including the writers. It is with great hopes that the research published can be presented to the committees on the unit in hopes that some of the workloads can be decreased to help with staffing and retention rates.
The poor nurse work environments and staffing levels associated with patient dissatisfaction in this study have been associated and linked previously to nurse burnout. Job-related burnout is described by (Maslach.C,1986) as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. In addition, better hospital nurse working environments have been linked primarily with higher job satisfaction and lower nurse burnout, and to lower mortality and morbidity rates.
It is generally accepted within healthcare that to understand mental health we must adopt the biopsychosocial model. This model assumes that an interdependent relationship exists between biological, psychological and social factors which are involved in all aspects of mental health (Toates, 2010, p. 14). To be true to the model research must be holistic and not investigate the factors in isolation.
...erstand the importance of mental health, we would all appreciate how lucky we are to not face days where even the simplest tasks appear to be challenging, even the effort to wake up in the morning seems like a great ordeal to some sufferers of depression. It is important to let friends and family know that your support is available, just in case someone is tackling some form of mental illness. Just because someone is experiencing a hurdle in their lives, it is essential to continue to help them carry on in striving for the happiness that they deserve. We should all be aware of the effect our actions could have, to try a little bit harder to eliminate the stigma that exists within our society.
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Poghosyan, Clarke, Finlayson, and Aiken (2010) in a cross-national comparative research explored the relationship between nurses’ burnout and the quality of care in 53,846 nurses from six countries. Their researched confirmed that nurses around the world experience burnout due to increase workload. Burnout was manifested as fatigue, irritability, insomnia, headaches, back pain, weight gain, high blood pressure, and depression. Burnout influenced nurses’ job performance, lowered patient satisfaction, and it was significantly associated with poor quality of care. Patient safety decreased as nurses’ job demands
Stress in nursing education is beginning to get the attention of nurse educators and nurse researchers in the recent years because its effects on learning, persistence and the overall students’ satisfaction and wellbeing have been recognized (DelPrato et al, 2011).
Since people are always dealing with certain changes in their lives, they are always dealing with some type of stress. One of the biggest growing issues with stress is stress in the workplace. According to Northwestern National Life, one-fourth of employees view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives (“Stress at Work,” 1999).... ... middle of paper ...