Psychology of Healthcare Management: Causes, Impact, and Importance of Managing Stress in the Workplace

Psychology of healthcare
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Causes and impact of stress in the workplace........................................................................3
Employers responsibility in managing stress.........................................................................6
Importance of managing stress in the workplace...................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Health psychology refers to the study of the psychological along with behavioral processes
which are effective in health, healthcare, and illness. This includes different psychological
factors which may influence about proper management of their work within a healthcare setting
or workplace. Within the healthcare workplace, many healthcare professionals may face
difficulty in dealing with their work and get stressed at their workplace. Due to continuous
working and providing their healthcare services to their patient their role and responsibility leads
to creating an impact on their health that also impact the quality of service delivery (Beltrán-
Velasco et. al., (2018)). There are different causes along with the impact of stress within the
workplace that are faced by the healthcare professional. There is a discussion about the
workplace stress causes and their impact. There is also discussion about employer responsibility
in managing stress along with their importance. There is the various impact of psychology that
can be effective and can help to deliver better and more effective responses toward the care of a
healthcare professional. Health psychology includes social, biological along with psychological
factors that influence individual illness and health (Lenzo et. al., (2021)). There is also a
discussion about the evaluation of psychological motivation along with individual differences in
the management structure along with behavior within the organization. It can also help to enable
health care managers about promoting positive workplace performance along with interactions.
MAIN BODY
Causes and impact of stress in the workplace
Stress can be defined as harmful emotional and physical health that is effective and can
lead to creating a negative impact on individual resources, capabilities along with their needs for
the worker which can influence individual poor health within the workplace. Here, employers
should take care of their employees by applying different strategies and techniques for reducing
employees stress and providing some relief that can also have a positive impact on their working
performance and allow to improve organizational productivity (Malik & Björkqvist, (2019)).
This can also help to influence a better and positive response towards their organization where
the employer should take care of all the activities and working conditions that have the risk to
influence stress within their employees. Here, healthcare management and leaders should take

some initiative that can be effective and help in getting better care and support to their employees
for better response (Sönmez et. al., (2020)).
There are many staff members in the healthcare organization due to the high workload
and continuous work need to perform hard which can lead to create work pressure and induce
stress within them. Here, healthcare organizations should take initiative and organizational
leaders should perform well to reduce such type of negative impact on their staff members and
possess a good and healthy environment for their working that can help in reducing workplace
stress. Many healthcare workers suffer from occupational stress which leads to creating a high
negative impact on their working performance along with organizational productivity. Here, it
may lead to result in a lack of skills, lower social support at work, organizational factors,
burnout, and deterioration in life quality along with service provision (Verhage et. al., (2018)).
According to American Psychology Association (APA), there are different levels of
stress which can lead to creating a high negative impact on the individual which may include
acute stress, chronic stress, episodic acute stress (Foy et. al., (2019)). These all have their
symptoms, characteristics, treatment, and duration. There is a high impact of stress on individual
life which can lead to creating a negative impact on their health along with their professional
working performance. There is also some negative influence about it which can lead to impact on
individual quality of life (Kumala et. al., (2020)). There is also another impact of stress on the
individual life that can reduce the quality of care services that they provide to their client as the
service provider. Stress also impacts individual ability to understand a thing and influence them
to act accordingly.
Stress in healthcare professionals can also impact patient health quality and their health
improvement quality. When any healthcare professional faces stress levels, then there is a high
risk of reducing the quality of healthcare service which can impact the delivery of care services
to the patient and reduce the better improvement in patient health. There can also be a chance of
getting wrong and compromised care services which can lead to creating a high risk of getting
false or wrong healthcare services or treatment that can impact individual lifestyle and patient
health may get decline (Li et. al., (2018)). Poor delivery of healthcare services may also
influence and impact patient health and take their health at risk. Here, healthcare leaders and
managers should take initiative to effectively deal with such types of raising concerns that may
impact individual health and have high consequences on patient health (Sarfraz et. al., (2019)).