Mental Health Promotion Case Study 2022

Running head: Mental health promotion
Mental health promotion
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Mental stress faced by nurses
Nurses are very likely to experience occupation stress in their workplace that is
affecting their mental health. Long working hours, work pressure and poor communication
skills with the hospital staffs are the main concerns of occupational stress among the nurses.
Nurses working in ICUs and critical units develop more stress and increased anxiety
symptoms. This kind of stress reflects in their family life and also lead to inadequate sleep
(Laschinger et al, 2016). All these factors have resulted in chronic physical ailments in many
nurses. Demeaning and disadvantaging the target are common acts of bullying that is
triggering the mental distress for nurses (Berry et al., 2016) They are also becoming more
prone to cardiovascular related problems and premature death. Nursing needs the
professionals to be emotionally strong and there are many cases like death of their patient or
sufferings of the clients that make them emotionally vulnerable.
Work place bullying and its effect on health workers
There are many negative factors in bullying that trigger this social phenomenon.
Individual factors like age and seniority play an important role (Berry et al., 2016).
Workplace bullying may be from the organisation that prevents them from work stability and
this may be hinder for their mental health (Berry et al., 2016). Nurses are subjected to
immense stress due to their work nature and have high tendency to bullying by seniors (Berry
et al., 2016). Situations like not getting assistance from the seniors or bullying in social or
political context is a serious issue. This kind of bullying may range from a few days to
months, which gradually affect the mental well being of the nurses and is reflected in their
work (Berry et al., 2016). Bullying in the form of verbal abuse or continual criticism affects
their mental health tremendously (Keller et al., 2018). The nurses become emotionally
vulnerable and the situation makes them difficult to concentrate in their work (Keller et al.,

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2018). Many times nurses face bullying from the organization also in the form of false
complaints. In such situations generally nurses are targeted and face lot of interference in
their work practice (Keller et al., 2018).
Social factors governing the issue
There are many common factors like social, economic, environmental and political
that results in affecting the mental health of nurses. The lack of support from the seniors or
hospital staff is a common social factor that prevails in the issue. According to many nurses it
is difficult for them to make others understand about the work pressure they face and kind of
stress they are in. Nurses are also underpaid in many hospitals and very meagrely paid for the
extra work they do, thus compelling them in aneconomical pressure to stay in the given pay.
They are not paid well and financial incentives are also not favourable (Greenglass & Burke,
2016). The income inequality compels them to work under strenuous pressure and thus
affecting their mental health.
The environment of the workplace is also an important factor like proper
infrastructure and supporting peers. There are many incidence by bullying faced by young
nurses, which leads them to depression. Political pressure may also be present in hospitals
that may come in the way of nursing practise. Political views related to any disease or any
subject like euthanasia may put nurses in dilemma or treatment subjected to pressure. Such
kind of emotions may affect the nurses mental health and bring in behavioural changes. All
these factors play a key role in mental health of nursing that pressurises the nurses and affect
their mental health (Thornicroft et al, 2016). Work demands and psychological demands by
both the hospital staffs and patients has put nurses under immense stress and affecting their
overall health. The nurses are in need of adequate mental health care by recognising the
complexities of all these factors.