Overworked Medical and Hospital Staff

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OVERWORKED MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL STAFF
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According to aspiration of common good, every individual or group needs such social
condition in which they can execute their work efficiently. In field of nursing, the staffs do no
use religious perspective to address the issue of common good (Pinto, 2015). They deal with the
quest to strike in order to balance both social and personal integrity. Therefore, they are engage
in extra task in addition to ethical standard when caring the patient and end up with work load.
Hence, they face number of challenges in realizing the aspiration of common good. The issue of
workload medical staffs is the major concern in health sector and violating the principle of
common good.
The main issue that is prevailing in the health care sector is increasing of workload of the
medical and hospital staffs in Australia. It is noted that nursing staff are leaving their job with
fear that patients can be harmed accidently. 10.8% of nursing staffs have left their job in 2017-
2018 (Desborough et al., 2016). The work pressure has led to inefficient work by the staff’s
member, further it is also challenging and hampering the care of patients. The worker often do
overtime due to less salary and end up in lack of efficiency in their responsibility. The issue is
challenging the aspiration of common good professionally, locally and globally (Milne, 2017).
As per the principle, every human is sacred and their dignity is the foundation of moral
value. The issue over worked medical and hospital has impacted them professionally (Yang,
2018). The nursing and medical staffs are also human being and they have to work more extra
hours then their competency which is challenging the aspiration of common good of human
dignity. It is impacting both the patients care and the individual themselves. Being overworked,
staffs fails to perform their duty and give effective care to the patients (Kunzweiler et al., 2016).
The patients are also being harmed because of such prevailing issue. The staffs are leaving their

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jobs and ending up with depression and other health issue. Thus, it is adversely affecting their
career and future.
It is evident from the study that every human should have adequate assess to resource and
must get effective care as it is their right to personal possession (Norouzinia et al., 2016). Such
goal can be reached when worked together. The over-working of medical staffs is posing
negative effects in health care sector affecting the life of local community. The issue is
prevailing because of less number of employees and high number of patients. Nurse are
responsible body in safeguarding the health of people which is the important facet of common
goods. However the overworking of the medical staffs is challenging their role as well
responsibility towards society (Higgs et al., 2016). The element of nursing such as compassion
and care are being compromised due to over-workings. The issue is challenging the aspiration of
common good, as they are becoming incompetent and fails to examine the role of nursing
community and society.
On the other hand, nursing field are undergoing the challenge of high number of patients
and less number of working staffs. The nursing staffs just like other people needs healthy
working condition for demonstrate their actions and interventions. Overworked medical and
hospital staffs are the sign of failing hospitals. Globally, the overworked staffs are undergoing
many mental pressure and have to work more than their assigned hour due to high number of
patients (Norouzinia et al., 2016). Their dignity of work is being dishonored in association with
the disrespect of their rights to work. This issue is high worldwide major reason being less fair,
thus issue is challenging the principle of common good.
Lastly, from the above discussion it can be said that, in order to maintain the principle of
common good, it is important to show the respect of every individual with respecting their work.