Analyzing the Impact of Nurse Stress on Patient Care Quality in the UK

This report examines the correlation between work-related stress experienced by nurses and the quality of patient care within the UK healthcare system. It highlights that long working hours, heavy workloads, and lack of organizational support contribute significantly to nurse stress, which in turn negatively impacts service quality, potentially leading to practice errors and compromised patient outcomes. The report emphasizes the importance of implementing policies and interventions to manage and mitigate nurse stress, such as promoting healthy workplace practices, ensuring adequate rest and breaks, and fostering effective communication and teamwork. By addressing work-related stress, healthcare organizations can improve the well-being of their nursing staff and enhance the quality of care provided to patients. Desklib provides access to this report and a variety of study tools for students.

The association between
nurses, work-related stress,
and quality of patient care in
UK

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Nursing care includes the assistance that should be provided to the patient that can enable to
deliver quality of healthcare services which can have high positive impact on individual health.
this can also help to fulfil individual health needs which may include direction to individual
which can have high impact on delivery of better care and services which are associated with
providing better care and support.
MAIN BODY
To deliver better healthcare support, there is need to provide better and effective nursing
care which are associated with association between nurses. In order to delivery better and
continuous care, there is need to take care about better health which can allow to get better
patient care.
Due to long hour service delivery to patient and high gap in nursing staff and patient
ration creates stress to nursing staff (Jakimowicz et. al., (2018)). This is one of the potential
issues for the nursing staff in any of the healthcare organisation that should be taken in
consideration and needed for better care and service delivery that may include difficulty in
dealing with better and effective health improvement quality care services. Continuous working
and taking proper rest and gap during service delivery create stress for the nursing staff as a
professional. This also create high impact on the quality of care services to patient that can
impact the positive outcomes and result. Stress among nurses refers to one of the most impactful
issues which are highly effective and can have high impact on quality of service delivery within
organisation. There can be many reason which can lead to cause of stress for the causing
different aspect. This may also include the burden to take care about their patient along with their
personal life. They are not able to manage their personal and professional life more effectively
which leads to create an impact on their service delivery and also leads to create stress.
There are some of the common reason which can lead to create situation of stress within
people this may include teamwork (Akter et. al., (2018)). When there is ineffective
communication with team, then it can be harsh to take care of patient in effective way that can
lead to create an impact on delivery of better and effective care. In this, there is need to improve
the communication within team of nursing staff or healthcare professional. This can allow to get
better and effective response which can allow nursing staff and other healthcare professional to

take care about the effective response which allow to get improvement in patient health and
allow to delivery better care services to nurses within healthcare organisation. There can also be
conflict between team that can play an effective role that lead to stress within nurses. Conflict
can also lead to create an impact on delivery of services and also create stress within nurses. Not
able to delivery of effective services can also lead to create tension and lead stress within nurses.
There can also be risk of stress because which cane be there due to not getting proper support
from the organisation that can also impact individual work where it leads to work satisfaction.
There is also some main factor which have their role in creating stress within nursing
staff which may include long working hours, heavy workload, tight deadlines, lack of autonomy,
boring work, changes within organisation and others. Due to work stress it can impact individual
work and also impact the quality of service delivery that are causing impact on the delivery of
better care and support to every individual that can significantly cause impact on quality of life
and leads to work related stress within nurses (Alenezi et. al., (2018)). Due to getting stress it
also impacts on service quality which can have high impact on the delivery of quality of care.
This can create negative impact on patient health improvement and may also lead to increased
incident of practice errors. There is various impact on the service delivery which have negative
response on the delivery of healthcare services. There is need to take care about the work related
stress that can be effective in taking care of individual that can impact on the delivery of
healthcare services. In such situation, nursing staff should get better and effective response
through using different intervention and strategies. In this, there is need to take care about the
work related stress through managing it more effectively.
There is need to take care about the effective healthcare service which are effective and
allow to get better care about patient health. Through implementing work related policy can
allow to get better care of nurses that can help in managing work related stress (Sperling,
(2021)). There are some of the policy which may include prohibition of tobacco along with
alcohol at workplace, taking interval between two consecutive work, taking care of patient health
which can lead to create an impact that can help in getting better quality of services. There are
also some policies which are effective that can allow to get better care about nurse stress. It can
lead to create high positive impact on service quality. Working hours, taking break, taking leave
and following allow the health related safety at workplace can help to reduce the risk of stress at

the workplace. This can be effective for the nursing staff and help in taking care of every patient
more efficiently.
Nurses can manage their stress through managing diet, getting plenty of sleep, sharing of
feelings, limiting exposure to media, implementing work place practices more effectively and
taking rest in interval.
This may provide better care and support which are associated with improving quality of services
within healthcare organisation within UK (Luceño-Moreno et. al., (2020)).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can have concluded that there are many application of findings
that allow better and effective delivery of nursing care.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Akter et. al., (2018). Factors predicting quality of work life among nurses in tertiary‐level
hospitals, Bangladesh. International nursing review, 65(2), 182-189.