Report on Occupational Stress and Moral Distress in Healthcare Workers

This report analyzes occupational stress and moral distress within the healthcare sector, drawing on research from sources like Holloway and Galvin, and Oh and Gastmans. It investigates the causes and effects of stress, particularly focusing on healthcare workers and nurses. The report examines the role of organizational factors, lack of support, and ethical dilemmas in contributing to stress and burnout. It explores qualitative research methods used to understand these issues, including the use of self-reported measures and cognitive behavioral tools. The report also addresses moral distress experienced by nurses, considering the impact of ethical conflicts and institutional constraints on their professional practice. It highlights the need for worksite planning to support nurses facing such challenges, and provides a comprehensive overview of the topic, including the importance of addressing the mental and physical well-being of healthcare professionals.

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Table of Contents
1.Topic: “Preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers”...................................................3
2. Topic: “Moral distress experienced by nurses”...........................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

1.Topic: “Preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers”
As per the views expressed by Holloway and Galvin, 2016, Healthcare workers can
suffer from various occupational stress while working within the office premises. As a results of
lack of skills, organisation factors and low social support during the workplace. This can lead to
distress, psychosomatic issues and deterioration in quality of their life and provision related to
their services. The main purpose of effectiveness of their work and individual directed
interventions which compared to no alternative to prevent stress at work in healthcare workers.
In the opinion of Galvin, it has been analysing that the chances of stress can be difficult to
determine among the workers.
The researcher has selected qualitative research method because there is lesser
availability of statistical data to analyse. This research undertaken mostly relies on theoretical
basis. It will assist them to get more valuable information about the mental situation of the
workers they are facing while working in an organisation. As the primary results they considered
all validates as self-reported measures to evaluate occupational stress and burnout. Cognitive
behavioural tools work through providing new matter to feel, reason and act in stressful
condition. The main intention is here to deal with removing stress through ensuring that workers
are more equipped to face all the activity that are associated with their jobs. It is essential for the
researcher evaluate mental and physical relation tools that divert overall attention away from the
workers from unpleasant stressful they are faced from so many time.
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2. Topic: “Moral distress experienced by nurses”
In the view point of Oh and Gastmans, 2015, moral distress is a kind of stress that occurs in
case people knows the correct thing to do, but because of institutional or other constraints it
makes tough to pursue the reliable course of actions. It can be emotional state that occurs from
any kind of situation, in case nurse feels that the ethically correct actions used to take several
from what they are doing in their daily activity. There are certain policies that are used to follow
in order to prevent nurse from doing tasks as they think is right for them. This will indicate a
complete dilemma in relation to moral behaviour which nurse carries towards their patients.
Nurses are more consistent with ethical dilemmas in their profession of nursing practices.
As a consequence, nurse made specific report that experiencing moral distress. The primary
aim of this analysis is to deal with quantitative evidence on their moral attitude or behaviour.
According to the researcher, it has been seen that plenty of nurse experiences is going though
such kind of distress that are associated with difficult care condition and burnout. These are
directly made impacts on their professional career. Further, this research is needed to examine
overall worksite planning in order to support nurse those are going through these kind of
situations. It is vital to deals with every condition that associated with nursing practices.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal:
Holloway, I. and Galvin, K., 2016. Qualitative research in nursing and healthcare. John Wiley
& Sons.
Oh, Y. and Gastmans, C., 2015. Moral distress experienced by nurses: a quantitative literature
review. Nursing Ethics. 22 (1). pp.15-31
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