Workplace Pressure is Unavoidable in Today's Contemporary World

In the nursing profession stress is encountered daily. Stress is managed differently by all nurses. The way nurses manage stress determines the impact of stress on nurses. There are some nurses who use stress as a positive way of learning and others handle stress negatively. There is more research that supports nurses handling stress in the workplace more negatively than positively. The purpose of this paper is to provide scenarios of how nurses handle stress from the workplace in a negative, positive and borderline way.

Introduction Stress affects millions of people. One of the most common forms of stress is that related to our careers and the workplace. In today 's economic difficulty, work related stress is even more pronounced than ever before. Everyone who has ever held a job has, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. According to the American Psychological Association 's (APA) annual Stress in America Survey. Only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they were doing

Nurses work long hours and deal with high levels of stress during the workday which leads to nurse burnout. Nurse burnout is classified as physical and mental fatigue, which strongly affects the nurses emotions and motivation. (“Nursing Burnout”). Burnout is caused by various factors within the workplace, such as dealing with a hectic, fast-paced environment, caring for too many patients at one time, and working odd hours. When nurses deal with multiple patients per shift, high levels of responsibility, and their own personal problems, they can become exhausted and overwhelmed. Stress due to burnout can also affect the nurse’s mood in a negative way, causing the nurse to become impatient or irritable, which can oftentimes results in verbal or emotional abuse towards the

Similar to physical exhaustion, emotional exhaustion results from depletion of emotional resources and failure to restore one’s own emotional equilibrium. (Moore, 2009, p. 1) In today’s busy society the demands of life, job and family can be excessive and overwhelming. Combine these demands with the additional stressors of caring for another person or persons, increased demands of productivity with decreased personnel and the unrealistic expectations of one’s self or others and place all of this burden on one person, this would adequately describe the 21st century nurse. Nurses are continually engaged in emotional relationships with patients and their families which call upon the nurse to be in a constant supporting role. One reaches emotional exhaustion when this burden becomes too heavy to carry

However, they are contributing attributes to compassion fatigue. Since the 1980’s, burnout has been a topic researched and impacts three elements, emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and professional inefficacy (Garcia-Izquierdo, Meseguer de Pedro, Soler Sanchez and Isabel Rios-Risquez, 2018). This mental distress leads to substandard care, putting the safety of a patient at risk. Additionally, nurses who suffer from this syndrome, experience poor quality of life and compromised personal health. In like manner, secondary traumatic stress can also exacerbate manifestations of compassion fatigue. “STS is a multifaceted state of exhaustion and dysfunction in which employees take on an emotional strain and burden and suffer themselves,” (Syed Muhammad Imran Haider, Yaqoob, & Saeed, 2017, p 314). Routinely exposed to traumatic situations as a result of caregiving, puts an emotional strain on the nurse causing them to suffer themselves. With this, work place environments are equally fundamental when completing a complete study of compassion

Adam Van Brimmer interviews J.P Pawliw-Fry on the topic of people “Performing Under Pressure” this appeared in the HR Magazine volume 60. This interview Adam Brimmer did with J.P Pawliw-Fry is based on 7-year large study that J.P Pawliw-Fry conducted. This Q&A session was based on what came from the research in terms of what can be done by human resource professional and mangers can do to help and lower stress in their employees. This interview leads to HR professionals who are reading this Q&A’s about how to deal with pressure and how people will view it. Adam Van Brimmer points out that nobody can truly thrive under pressure no matter. The counter point the interviewer also points to is that while others do perform differently and handle

Stress is a normal feeling, and can be beneficial as it motivates people to accomplish tasks efficiently. However, prolonged stress can be harmful and lead to burnout. Burnout is defined as a “syndrome of feelings of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment (Maslach & Jackson, 1986).” Healthcare providers, especially nurses, are often exposed to high-stress environments that put them at risk for burnout. It is reported that 40% of hospital nurses experience burnout and one in five hospital nurses consider leaving work within one year (Ilhan, Durukan, Taner, Maral, & Bumin, 2007). This is concerning because nursing burnout not only affects the wellbeing of the nurse, but also the kind of care the patient receives. According to the National Institute of

In another recent study by Mealer, which was not included in the aforementioned meta- analysis, the combined occurrence of burnout syndrome and symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression were studied. To a certain extent, this study confirmed the previous data by the same authors, and highlighted the high prevalence of PTSD symptoms among critical care nurses. Furthermore, the authors found a relationship between specific traumatic factors and stress-related psychiatric symptoms (Mealer et al., 2009). In our study we aimed (a) to check whether there are differences in the incidence of psychiatric symptoms between intensive care and general medical and surgical ward nurses; (b) to map the occurrence of selected stress factors in ICU and on general wards; (c) to determine whether specific stress factors and selected causes of job dissatisfaction can increase the risk of psychological symptoms; and (d) to address the issue of workload in relation to psychological

Caregiving can be challenging. Stress from caregiving is common, especially among women since they are the main caregivers. If a person does not take care of themselves, then they are at risk for compassion fatigue (occurs from the relationship between the caregiver and patient) which jeopardizes the caregiver’s ability to care for their patients, therefore, leading to caregiver burnout (Gallagher, 2013). Caregiver burnout is a condition of mental, physical and emotional depletion which occurs when stresses of the caregivers interactions with his or her environment (Spencer Scott).

Nurses, always involved in patient care, sometimes experience detrimental effects with prolonged stress or “burnout” during their career throughout the years. Burnout is defined as an extended response to physical or emotional stressors. Some examples of these stressors are; memories of witnessing death, patient and family suffering, emotional stress of losing patients, feeling emotionally and physically drained, or emotional disconnect from staff which can all contribute to burnout. As a result, nurses can experience; exhaustion, anxiety, dissatisfaction and low capacity. Overall, burnout can have negative effects not just on the emotional and physical health of nurses but also on; patient satisfaction, outcomes and mortality of nurses and patients. Although, there are ways to reduce or prevent these negative effects of burnout from manifesting. For example, nurses can apply interventions to reduce these risks including; staff support, onsite counselors and psychiatrists for nurses and salary increases and reimbursement opportunities for nurses through clinical ladder programs. Nurses can also start by just saying no to certain requests, being aware of their tolerance level, by taking care of themselves and having fun outside of work. On the other hand, others do not think nursing burnout is fatal and nurses just need a break from their job to initiate change. Although, the issue of burnout is prevalent in nurse’s careers which need to be addressed more in society in

It is evident that the relationship between work stress and mental health has been established by numerous research studies. As discussed in Koesky (1993), the fact that all jobs involve some degree of stress makes it all the more alarming as to the level of stress experienced by individuals working in the human services. That is, given that these individuals are heavily involved in the lives of others, they often develop mental health symptoms that are characteristic of work-related stressors. In fact, “This involvement, which requires caring commitment and empathic responding, places workers at risk for a special type of strain commonly referred to as 'burnout'” (Koesky, 1993, p. 319).

Nurses are especially vulnerable to several related effects of stress, such as burnout, job dissatisfaction, increased interpersonal problems, increased health complaints, disturbances in sleep patterns, as well as clinical depression and anxiety (Villani, Grassi, Cognetta, Toniolo, Cipresso, & Riva, 2013). The potential for stress can be reduced by resolving difficulties in the workplace promptly, addressing staff shortages, turnover and absenteeism, and developing clear objectives and plans (McIntosh, & Sheppy, 2013). Learning to manage and reduce stress by developing insight and coping strategies will help to maintain and promote nursing integrity and consistent patient care (McIntosh, & Sheppy, 2013).

Nursing is a career full of stressors. Every day nurses deal with some type of stress and they can become emotionally drained. Nurses are the support system for the patients and their families, they watch patients suffer, and sometimes they even care for patients who are terminally ill and dying. The modern world of health care and tightening budgets are resulting in additional work-related stressors such as barriers to providing optimal care, increasingly complex needs of patients, short acute care lengths of stays, the need for increased knowledge of ever-changing technology, nursing shortages, poor staffing, long work hours, limited resources, and feelings of lack of control (Smith, 2014, p. 119). The above stressors can put nurses at

Stress and burnout is always a popular issue for journal article, academic books and the press (Jonathan & Halbesleben, 2008). Professional burnout is understood as the psychological reaction to chronic work stress as well as globally recognized problem among various specialties of nursing (Maslach, Schaufeli & Leiter, 2001). Burnout has been reported one of the occupational hazards in the work place. It is a critical problem in human service professions and it is debilitating to workers, costly to agencies and detrimental to clients (Shinn, Morch & Chestnut, 1984). Nursing is one of the most stressful professions, with great degree of job stress. Moreover, due to serious budget cut in health care across Canada, it is very common among

Stress is a common issue that faces every human being in different times. Stress can be caused by many factors, but one of the main reasons is work which is called occupational stress or work-related stress. Job stress does not only affect the employees’ performance within an organization, but also it affects their general health. Stress has become a challenge for employers now because high level stress results in low productivity, increased absenteeism and other problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and hypertension (Ahmad, Mohamed. 2017). It became a major problem for employers especially in developing countries where they don’t realize the importance of work-life balance and the impact of stress on the productivity level and the job