Stress Debriefing In Pediatric Nursing

This author chose a purposive sampling method that enabled the research to be focused on a specialized group. Participants had to have a common exposure to the population and was so specific and not random (Conte, 2014). Since the study was directly related to pediatric oncology nurses, so as to exclude extraneous variables, all participants were pediatric oncology nurses. Knowledge of the work these nurses does and knowledge of the impact of emotional and personal, though proficient, responses were equally important, to exclude input that would affect any of the researched data (Conte, 2014), In addition, the study involved a Nurse Practitioner who came with experience of 15 years as an oncology nurse and supervisor. Reflective Bracketing, a strategy to eliminate possible bias was utilized.

The case scenario portrayed Jackie, as a typical nurse who was conflicted and stressed out from both the demands of family and of the workplace environment. At home, she was pressured by her husband to take on extra overtime to supplement and augment the family’s income. Thus, in spite of feeling that her skills were not current, Jackie signed up with her previous hospital to be on the flexible staffing pool (Badzek, et al., 1998). As expected, “Jackie found the work extremely stressful. She rarely had the same unit and patient assignment” (Badzek, et al., 1998).

“Burnout has been widely studied in the health service profession, and nursing is recognized as one of the occupations with the highest burnout prevalence rates” (Harkin & Melby, 2014, p. 152). Nursing burnout affects many nurses in the profession in one way or another. In the nursing world, a typical shift length is now twelve hours or longer. This shift length has changed from the past in which nurses worked a normal shift of eight hours. While there are benefits and disadvantages to each of these shifts, there has to be a regulation of total hours worked in a week. Nurses who work at the bedside of critically ill patients witness marked human suffering (Sacco, Ciurzynski, Harvey, &

51. Keller, K.L. (1990). The Management of stress and prevention of burnout in emergency nurses, Journal of Emergency Nursing. 16(2), 90-5.

This paper explores three strategies Registered Nurses can use to ameliorate stress that families experience related to an acute care situation involving a burn injury. Scholarly articles and literature published within the last ten years were used to synthesize support for the interventions that Registered Nurses can implement as evidenced-based practice. Families experience stress related to significant stressors that include disturbed family routines and rituals as well as feelings of helplessness related to a lack of knowledge regarding burn injuries, treatment and the recovery process. As part of the standards of practice set out by professional regulatory bodies, Registered Nurses are responsible for identifying and intervening such

Nursing is more demanding than many other professions or occupations, as a result of the combination of sicker patients, exhausting schedules and arduous physical work (Gordon 235). It can take a significant emotional toll on many, hence the higher levels of depression and stress-related illnesses (Gordon, Buchanan, and Bretherton 190). Higher workloads not only were related to burnout, but also impacted both the nurses’ and the patients’ safety (Gordon, Buchanan, and Bretherton 191).

Working in health care is connected with a higher degree of stress than working in other professions. Nursing includes both non-specific stress and specific factors. Many hospital are experiencing increase patient workload. Changing Registered Nurse (RN) to patient ratios are affecting both nurses' job satisfaction and patient satisfaction alike. As healthcare reform pressures hospitals to cut costs and nursing shortage continues, increased patient loads are becoming a stressor in the acute care setting. RNs suffer as they feel the stress of needing to be in multiple places at one time, an unrealistic goal, while patients suffer as they see their primary nurse less often as desired, usually during times of medication or treatment administration.

On the other hand, burnout is related to a state of depletion of resources, which can possibly lead to significant economic loss as evidenced by an increase in absenteeism, higher rates of turnover and a rise in the cost of health care (Adriaenssens, De Gucht, & Maes, 2015). More importantly, the authors state that nurses have a higher risk for the development of burnout syndrome as compared to other occupations. Among the various departments in the hospital, nurses in the emergency room work in a hectic, unpredictable and a constantly-changing work environment (Adriaenssens, De Gucht, & Maes, 2015). In addition, ER nurses are confronted with a broad range of diseases, injuries and problems, which result to nurses from this specialty to have a higher rate of burnout (Adriaenssens, De Gucht, & Maes, 2015). The authors performed a systematic review of seventeen empirical quantitative studies on burnout among ER nurses. These studies all utilized self-reporting questionnaires from nursing respondents; fifteen out of the seventeen studies utilized the Maslach Burnout Inventory to quantify the level of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment (Adriaenssens, De Gucht, & Maes, 2015). Through these studies, the authors

Most people may experience some stress at some point in their lives due to various reasons. According to Nazari, Mirzamohamadi, and Yousefi (2015), occupational stress is the main cause of stress in a person’s life, and the study showed that more than 80% of nurses reported having higher levels of stress compared to other occupations (Nazari, Mirzamohamadi, & Yousefi, 2015). Some research showed ICU nurses are more prone to occupational stress and burnout than nurses who work at different wards (Nazari et al., 2015). The purpose of this paper is to find out why ICU nurses experience more stress and burnout than nurses in other areas, such as Med-Surg unit, and to find out possible coping mechanisms to prevent them.

A key attribute that a practitioner should have to form interpersonal relationships with their client is emotional stability. A nurse can use emotional stability to keep a calm mental state during chaos. Emotional stability is necessary in the health industry because health professionals are generally more proactive and successful in terms of problem solving. Nurses show emotional stability by not getting overwhelmed frustrated, or upset during traumatic events. Professionals with higher emotional stability are less likely to react to stressful scenarios (Hsu, Chang & Teng, 2009). Medical professionals with emotional stability are important in the workplace because they are a strong, stable person that patients and their family can lean on when they feel as if everything is falling apart. Nurses are exposed to pain and suffering throughout their careers, and it’s important to have an emotional

With the high demand of medical professionals and increasing numbers of people with chronic diseased, there might be a time where one nurse have to over see more patients than normal. Taking care of extra patients than normal might bring some work burnout and prevent nursing professionals from performing their job effectively. A study was done to measure the stress level of nurses working on the oncology department and the effect of stress leading the nurses to consider looking for job in other departments. It was found that 35% of the nurses were experiencing emotional stress and 17 % were depersonalized which then resulted in considering for other opportunities in less stressful departments (Davis S, Lind BK, Sorensen C, 2013). Stress can be experience from many factors such as death of a patient, patient’s family history, severity of patient’s health condition, and emotional attachment with patients. As a nursing professional, one have to witness devastating situations such as death of loved ones. It has been found that death and close relationship with patients and working environment are the main factors causing stress among nurses (Pavlos S et. al, 2016). Despite the fact that nursing professionals have to go through many stressful situations at work and may be in their personal life, how much attentive can they be while performing their nursing duties?

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In an emergency room setting there are a number of challenges that will be impacting nurses. The most notable include: extended working hours, increasing patient loads and obtaining consent. These issues are problematic, as they will contribute directly to nurses becoming overworked. In a health care environment this can lead to burnout. (Rogers, 2004) (Clark, 1998)

The shift report between the off-going and oncoming nurses must include all of the critical information about a patient’s plan of care. This information must be communicated. The change of shift report that is done incorrectly can be a result of missed information and poor communication between nurses, affecting their ability to deliver safe and efficient care for the patients. This problem occurs not just at one but at most hospitals, where inter-shift report still continues to take place at the nursing station without inclusion or a visual of the patient until the report is done. As I witnessed shift report in the hallways or at the nursing stations of SCVMC of the 33 bed mother and baby unit, I noticed that at times unnecessary information is received and critical information may not be communicated. On the other hand, at Redwood City Kaiser neuroscience unit bedside inter-shift nursing report works well and I have witnessed better nurse-patient relationship, lower incidents of falls, strong teamwork, as well as improved nurse accountability and prioritization at the beginning of the shift. As evidence shows in the article “Improving Client and Nurse Satisfaction Through the Utilization of Bedside Report”, there is a direct correlation between the bedside report and both client and nurse satisfaction in care settings, validating the importance of changing to bedside report (Vines, Dupler, Guido, 2014). I

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