2.2 RESEARCH REVIEW
Journal Articles And Speeches/Meeting Papers:
1.Differential Effectiveness of Coping in Managing Stress and Burnout in Oncology Nurses.
Authors:Rounds, James B., Jr.; Zevon, Michael A.
High levels of stress experienced by primary care oncology nursing staff, and the competency impairment which results from such stress, has become a matter of much concern in health care settings. This study was conducted to identify the coping strategies employed by oncology nurses, and to relate these strategies to differential indices of stress and burnout. Oncology nurses (N=133) at a comprehensive cancer center completed the Ways of Coping (WC) Checklist, the Job-Related Tension Index, the Emotional Exhaustion Scale, the Role Conflict
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The importance of management of occupational stress is recognized, besides all by Occupational health and safety since it has been found to be related not only with loss of productivity and loss of working hours but with the arousal of diseases and occupational accidents.
Purpose: The aim of this systematic review was the examination of the sources and consequences of occupational stress on nurses’ adequacy, productivity, efficiency.
Material – method: A systematic review was made in “European Agency for Safety and Health at Work”, “National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)”, “Job Stress Network” web sites for various publications and abstracts around the exact theme and the “Occupational and Environmental Medicine Journal” using as key words «stress, occupational stress, and Nursing».
Results: A number of aspects of working life have been linked to stress. Aspects of the work itself can be stressful, namely work overload and role-based factors such as lack of power, role ambiguity, and role conflict. Threats to career development and achievement, including threat of redundancy, being undervalued and unclear promotion prospects are stressful. Stress is associated with reduced efficiency, decreased capacity to perform, a lack of concern for the organisation and
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M* finds that job stressors were significantlyrelated to employees’ psychosomatic problems, job satisfaction, unproductive time at thejob, and absenteeism. Type A behavior was found to be an important moderator of thestress outcome relationship.
This study examines the relationship among job stressors (role ambiguity, role overload, role conflict, resource inadequacy, skill underutilization), Type A behaviour pattern and employees' psychosomatic complaints, life and job satisfaction, unproductive time at the job, and absenteeism among middle managers (N = 227) and among blue-collar workers (N = 285). Job stressors were found to be significantly related to all outcome variables, except life satisfaction. Type Abehaviour was associated with a number of job stressors and outcome variables.In addition, Type A behaviour was found to be an important moderator of the stress-outcome relationships. Implications of the findings for management and for future research are
According to the ANA, 2014, registered nurses and employers have the joint responsibility to reduce risks from nurse fatigue and to create and sustain a culture of safety, a healthy work environment, and a work-life balance. Registered nurses, in some cases, are demanded to work extra hours. They are overworked to the point of exhaustion resulting in harm to self and more importantly the patients in their care. The ability to thinking critically and make concrete decisions regarding patient care are at risk and the outcome can be detrimental to patients’
(2016) stated that the higher the stress levels, the lower job satisfaction tends to be. I agree with the author in this instance, because these stressors are what drove me out of the industry. While my current role is dissatisfying, I am committed to the organization’s values and beliefs. This is the first company I have worked for that cares about employee development and growth, rewards for high performance, giving back to the community through community service, and providing employees a livable wage with full benefits.
Diminished personal accomplishment is to evaluate oneself negatively because of failure a result it occurs when the individual’s external demands become higher than their coping ability.(Maslach, Schaufeli, leiter., 2001) . Many studies revealed that there is a high prevalence of burnout among nurses worldwide, it can affect approximately 45% of medical and nursing staff .(Abdo, El-Sallamy, El-Sherbiny, & Kabbash., 2015) . Bases upon several studies 25% to 33% of critical care nurses have a symptom of sever burnout syndrome.(Moss, Good, Gozal, Kleinpell, & Sessler., 2016). BURNOUT AMONG NURSES AND QUALITY OF CARE
For most nurses in hospital settings, a twelve-hour shift never means twelve hours. Health care is relentlessly being provided on a continuous basis and the demand of a patient care will always take precedence over a nurse’s end of shift. In any practice of nursing, nurses encounter various stressors while caring for patients with complicated health issues, sometimes resulting in nurses placing their own health on the back burner to care for their patient(s). This level of stress and physical manifestations is very common in nursing however; I wanted to focus on how it specifically impacted nurse anesthetists (CRNA). Growing up, I always envisioned nurse anesthetist (CRNA) as a very rewarding profession that offers a variety of unique benefits
The increase demands, and stress levels that coincide with them, lead to the high levels of burnout in nurses. Burnout is composed of both physical and emotional exhaustion caused by stress (Beck, 1995, p. 22). When experiencing burnout, nurses feel physically and emotionally fatigued and lose concentration and motivation for towards their work and overall performance (Beck, 1995, p. 21). Burnout directly affects the nurses’ job satisfaction (Erikson & Grove, 2008, p. 2), which in turn affects their competency. When a nurse's competency is compromised, there is a potential for causing their client harm.
It is important to identify why nurses are becoming stressed and how to reduce work related stress. The past 10 years there has been an increase in stress levels for nursing staff. In 2001 a survey was conducted by “American Nurses Association”. The study results showed that 70.5% of nurses cited the acute and chronic effects of stress and overwork among their top three health and safety
When nurses suffer from these burnouts, it does not only affect themselves and their family, but it follows them to their working environment. It is affecting their coworkers and the patients. This leads to poor quality of care for the patients, increase patient falls, medication errors, increase in hospital acquired infections, and other factors that affect patient care (Gómez-Urquiza, et al.,
The main outcome of the individuals included work-related pain. The purpose of the study was to find out levels of psychological job demands and job control. As a result of this method, 16% of therapists reported changing jobs because of job strain and
The implications of stress in healthcare industry It has been discussed in the literature review that healthcare workers face some difficulties and risks of burnout, physical and mental illness during their jobs because of high workload, low social support and sometimes due to the condition and death of patients. Bryant declared that there is a significant increase in the stress of healthcare workers in the last 35 years i.e. from 19-30% and the remaining are physically ill due to high workload. McVicar defined burnout as a negative reaction and stress which can affect occupational workers and discourage them to perform their job well, there are basically two stages of burnout that can take workers from minor to the extreme burnout and they
A large amount of risk factors of burnout syndrome among nurses include work experience, and job satisfaction, along with the specialty of which the nurse chose to make a career of. (Gómez-Urquiza, et al. 2017) Nurses working in emergency medicine or critical care are faced with many situation that are unexpected on a daily basis, the exposure to situations like these may create secondary stress. Gómez-Urquiza, et al. used 13 different studies from various countries compiling the rates of the three categories used in the Maslach Burnout Inventory.
In extreme cases, long-term stress or traumatic events at work may lead to psychological problems and be conducive to psychiatric disorders resulting in absence from work and preventing the worker from being able to work again Some people who experience stress may engage in unhealthy practices such as; smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet and little exercise. They may become distressed, irritable, enjoy their work less, and feel less committed to work, have difficulty thinking logically or making decisions. Generally we view stress as having either psychological and/or physiological reactions that affect health. (Doddy & lyons,
Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about how stress develops and its effects on the workplace. Tentative Thesis: Though the definition of stress is already well-known among our society, we remain ignorant towards how stress develops everywhere and influences the workplace. Introduction I. Attention
Thank you for your post. Working as a registered nurse can be exhausting and challenging, leading to frustration and unhappiness which can equate to burnout. The cause of burnout can occur in response to disruptive patients, beleaguered by direct and continuous contact with clients, mounting desk work, excessive workload, and shift work (Kar & Suar, 2014). Therefore, nurse burnout has been demonstrated by studies to have adverse consequences regarding patient care and safety. Burnout can affect the overall organization by increased turnover, decreasing the productivity of employees regarding increased absenteeism, and reduced quality of service (Nantsupawat, Nantsupawat, Kunaviktikul, Turale, & Poghosyan 2016).
Thereafter, a lack of detachment is predictive of high levels of strain and poor individual well-being. Additionally, detachment may play a mediating role in the job stressor-strain relationship and a moderating role in the stressor-well-being relationship (Sonnentag, & Fritz, 2015). Lin et al., (2015) research on the moderating roles of conscientiousness indicated that both challenge stressors and hindrance stressors were positively related to psychological strain. Moreover, conscientiousness moderated the relationship between both stressors and psychological strain, and moderated the relationship between challenge stressors and performance. Overall, the outcomes of the study suggest that conscientiousness acts as a two-edged sword that elevate performance and trigger the stress reaction of employees when they are faced with stressful situations.
) There are many different kinds of support given to workers in order to help them deal with stress. Here we will be looking at types of stress support given to employees as well as their stressors, by giving examples of these derived from the case study. Types of support given can include psychological support, cognitive support, employee assistance programs and physical support (Lehrer et al, 1994). Types of stressors that employees face are work overload, work-life balance, emotional and physical labor, job ambiguity and job demands (Danna & Griffin, 1999). Under psychological support there are various mediation and relaxation techniques that are used in order to help support employees suffering from stress.