Stress Management in Nursing Assignment

MANAGING NURSING CARE
ABOUT STRESS MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REVIEW QUESTION.....................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE SEARCH................................................................................................................2
QUALITY OF THE REVIEW........................................................................................................3
RESULT..........................................................................................................................................5
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Stress in an organisation is the most serious issue in the occupation of nursing.
Absenteeism at workplace is often seen due to burnout. Strain in relation to career and profession
can be described when an individual can't cope up with demand placed and is surrounded by
continual strain at workplace. These responses are explained by nurses as feeling of emotional
tiredness, a weird attitude towards profession and with other people, or low growth in personal
life. Nurses revealed that the reason behind the stress is due to continuous challenges they face in
their job or occupation (Peters & et.al., (2012). These consequences faced by health-care
professionals often lead to bitterness, aggressiveness, depression, low self-esteem, sleep
deceptiveness etc. They may also suffer from feeling of guilt, shame or fear of failure due to
stress at job.
Background of the study
Signs and symptoms of burnout may include fatigue, nausea, mood swings, inability to
concentrate, biting of nails, anxiety, depression, fatigue, feeling of sadness etc. Most of the time
it has also been analysed that health-care professionals who are facing stress at job also have
ongoing grief. It means, they continuously think about suicide. Various employment assistance
program has been implemented in order to reduce burnout of nurses. Many techniques are also
established like relaxation method which includes slow breathe, muscle relaxation techniques,
which must be practised by every health-care provider (Healy & Tyrrell, 2011). For cutting down
the stress nurses can also follow some task at individual like, they can share their feelings with
family or friends, follow healthy diet, having fun with relatives, setting realistic objectives. All
these methods may support them in cutting down burnout while treating inpatient elderly people.
Burnout in health-care professionals is related with frequent absent-ism from job, low
satisfaction in work, and a raised purpose of leaving the occupation. Many tools are developed
by researchers in order to reduce tension of nurses. Assignment will include methods of
assessing risk and keen analysis on techniques implemented in order to cure tenseness. It will
also consist of exclusion and inclusion criteria of study and various search strategies or
techniques used by author for effective completion of assignment.
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REVIEW QUESTION
The report which has been studied is a systematic review about how health-care professionals
can manage the strain raising in their lives. The author has clearly explained that their aim is to
interpret and evaluate research about stress interventions for nursing staff in the care of severely
ill old aged patient or individual having genetic disorder. They have critically analysed studies
that were published to explain the influence of certain interventions on stress of nurses (Epp,
2012). Specific and particular questions were clearly moved around finding studies which proved
the effect of nursing interventions in terms of reducing stress. They have also made
recommendations for the future research. Study was particularly based on reducing job related
stress of health-care professionals.
The population which were taken in study was nursing personnel that consists of certified
and college graduated nurses, licensed health-care professionals, carers and service user care
attendants (Boyle, 2011). PICO process was used in order to develop good clinical research for
reviewing intercession used in reducing burnout of specialist. The four components of this model
are problem, intervention, comparison and outcome. Research shows the issues that are faced by
nurses while treating patients can result into burnout. Stress in health-care professionals may be
caused due to their physical and emotional need or feeling of disempowerment. PICO will help
the health-care professionals in better understanding the factors which are contributing for
increasing stress among nurses.
As Ward (2011) stated that nursing is a complex profession and requires a lot of hard
work and attention by providers which create a huge tension for them. Intervention consists of
strategies which are used in order to reduce the stress in lives of an individual. Methods can
include introducing health-care professionals with programs such as meditations, involvement in
physical activities like yoga, dance, aerobic, providing certain therapies to reduce stress.
Outcomes that could be seen after study and implementing of these strategies is cut down of
tension in nurses’ life
LITERATURE SEARCH
Various Strategies were found out in the assignment by using various keywords like
“nurses’ burnout”, “stress management”, “systematic review” and “PICO”. Search terms was
also related to research question and terms like stress in nurses, strategies, methods etc. Usage of
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