Stress and Practicing Nurse

STRESS AND PRACTICING NURSE
STRESS AND PRACTICING NURSE
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Overview
The profession of nursing is associated with stress. This stress is generated from the
work or sometimes from the work-related critical incidents. Management of the stress is
essential to ensure normal working life for the nurses and healthcare practitioners (Berg et al.,
2016). In this regard, the selected case scenario will be discussed to indicate the critical
incident of time management issue and the associated stress that have been raised from it to
hamper the care practices. The stress revealing techniques to nullify the impact of the trauma
will be discussed. On the other hand, debriefing application in the medical context will be
generated to indicate the application of it to reduce the trauma related influence among the
medical practitioners. Debrief session has the possibility to reduce the stress for the medical
practitioners.
Discussion
Case Scenario
During the third year of placement I had encountered the stress related to time
management. I was provided with the task to test a drug from the end of my mentor.
However, during the process of testing the drug I had been approached from the end of
healthcare assistant for helping a patient who was lying in a dirty bed. I had agreed to support
the assistant of health care as it was on the supremacy and the testing of drug was for my
development and learning. After I had helped the other healthcare professional with the
patient, my mentor has asked for the drug testing result. I had interpreted that I had gone to
support the care assistant and currently I had looked for the drug test. I need to improve my
time management as prescribed by my mentor as I had not looked up for the drug. It was vital
for me to test the drug as for Registered Nurse it is vital to know the drug and how it is used.
This situation has generated a question to me regarding the priority generation based on the
professional learning and development. The time management and decision making related
stress has been developed in this regard (Kassam-Adams et al., 2015).
After the incident I had prioritized my action regarding time management in
healthcare setting and thus have generated planning to manage stress. However, the EMR
application had emerged as the primary criteria to promote the essential part of the service
occupied care. This system generally includes radiology and laboratory results, list of
medication, notes of clinical, record of demographics of patient, list of problems and printing
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of prescriptions. (Johnson et al., 2016). In healthcare setting, the time management is vital
and for the information gathering and record it as electronic health record has become
challenging. Thus, the time management related stress issue have started bothering me.
Physicians and nurses are struggling with burnout condition. The record had indicated that
73% of the healthcare professionals are facing the issue of burnout (Goldsmith, McCloughen
& Curtis, 2018). Similar related causes of EHR stress include very ample quantity for
documentation and thus it has resulted in time spent at home to manage the records of patient
and tricky user interfaces. Thus, the stress related to time management is still persisting in the
health care settings. Moreover, this stress related to time management needs attention to
reduce so that the nursing practices can be facilitated (Li et al., 2019).
Stress overcome process
To manage the time related stress of data recording, drug testing and patient care I had
considered the process of developing priority list. Though the requirements and urgency in
hospital are overlapping in nature, the management of priority list had helped me to maintain
a routine at work. I had provided the concentration towards the recruitment of support with
others to manage the critical situations. I had performed exercises to keep myself active at
work and deep breath technique during the strenuous condition had helped me to overcome
the stress level. Seeking help from the peer group is vital to manage the emergency situations.
In this regard, it is important to consider the fact that handling of EMR data must ensure the
authorization of the access (Powers& Candela, 2017). The privacy control of the patient is the
foremost criteria. The authorize access of the data and the patient driven information plays an
important role in this regard. Thus, the stress management process must ensure that the EMR
record of the patient should be maintained. Furthermore, I had managed to maintain a
personal notebook in terms of daily based work and this way I had managed to reduce the
stress level that have been generated in the workplace. Maintenance of the ethics in terms of
reducing the stress is important to consider in the healthcare setting (van der Riet et al.,
2015).
Debriefing
Debriefing process is a very essential ethical consideration that ensures the fact that
the participants must be must be informed fully and it must not harm the individual in
physically or psychologically. The process of debriefing is important in terms of
psychological research aspect with the human subjects after an experiment (Daigle, Talbot&
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