Over Worked Medical and Hospital Staff

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OVER WORKED MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL STAFF
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Introduction
Hospital and medical staffs plays an important role in running a hospital efficiently.
Several hospital staffs running the hospital include doctors, nurses, support staff and other
health professionals. Medical staff professionals maintain the information of physicians
working in that hospital and in addition are also responsible in coordinating credentialing
processes. They also have to perform some administrative duties in order to decrease the load
of the management (Parand, Dopson, Renz & Vincent, 2014). Hospital staffs sometimes have
to suffer from a lot of stress due to increased amount of work they have to perform each day.
In some days the work becomes burdensome. Hence, this essay mainly focuses on overload
of work for hospital and medical staff. It then describes human dignity and common good and
how they are missing in this above problem. It also summarizes nurses’ role that should be
enacted in order to achieve advocacy. It also provides the reader with an example from a
NGO or any Government body which will help in diminishing the workload of the staffs
working in the hospital and how advocacy can be achieved by the nurses.
Human dignity
Human dignity is referred to any individual’s insight of self- respect and self-worth in
order to achieve psychological empowerment (Andorno, 2014). Human dignity is a part of
education that is inherited to every individual. No one can teach human dignity to others.
This is a conscious sense that enables an individual to feel that they too deserve respect and
honour from other individuals. It is an ideal and valuable right for every human (James,
2014). The health care professionals and hospital staffs have to face numerous psychological
stressors. They are always tensed due to work overload in the hospitals and their incapability
in completing all the work in the précised time. Furthermore, hospital staffs lack dignity. In
this profession, no one is there to help them or even share the tasks so that no staff gets

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irritated and feels pressurised with so many tasks. According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), “a healthy workplace is one in which workers and managers
collaborate to use a continual improvement process to protect and promote the health, safety
and well-being of all workers and the sustainability of workplace” (Portoghese, 2014). The
hospitals staffs and the medical staffs are humans too. They also need some free time for
themselves. If they are overloaded with work or stressed out, then they will not be able to
take care of the hospitals. For example, nurses providing care to the patients daily sometimes
are stressed due to overwork, so it is an unrealistic expectation from the hospital management
that nurses have to deal with their stress as well as provide to their patient (Shine, 2017). The
management lacks the basic dignity to understand the issues of the medical staff that they are
stressed out due to too much work load.
Common good
Common good is referred to be a very distinct idea in the repository of Catholic social
theory. It serves as a reminder to the patients as well as the health care providers regarding
the social nature of hospitals and other healthcare systems. It is a concept which analyses
moral and ethical problems that affects care. However the idea of common good is not
utilised in the hospital as they provide a lot of pressure to their staffs ( Peña-López, 2015).
According to Tei-Tominaga & Nakanishi (2018) it has been proven that over working hours
and workload develops many health risks for the hospital staffs. Sometimes, the nursing
staffs also suffer from many ethical problems regarding care of their patient due to handling a
lot of patient at the same time. Hence, overwork of the hospital and medical staff cannot
portray the concept of common good.