Report: Promoting Wellbeing and Building Resilience in Nursing

This report delves into the critical aspects of promoting wellbeing and building resilience within the nursing profession. It begins by analyzing the interconnectedness of mental wellbeing and resilience, crucial for navigating the demanding nature of healthcare. The report explores the physical and psychological impacts of stress and pressure on nurses' mental state, highlighting the challenges faced in the field. It identifies signs and symptoms of excessive stress, providing insights into cognitive, emotional, and behavioral indicators. Furthermore, the report outlines factors that enhance wellbeing and strategies to mitigate negative influences, offering practical solutions for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. It details behaviors associated with positive resilience and suggests actionable ways to cultivate resilience. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of proactive mental health management and provides methods for building and maintaining resilience, ultimately contributing to improved patient care and a more supportive work environment for nurses.

Promoting Wellbeing and Building
Resilience

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
The physical and psychological impact of stress and pressure or on mental welding...........3
The connection between resilience and mental welding........................................................4
Factors affecting improve well wing......................................................................................4
Factor having negative impact on well being and how to avoid it it......................................5
Behavior link with resilience..................................................................................................5
Ways to build resilience.........................................................................................................6
Method for managing and maintaining mental well-being along with building resilience....6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Providing better health and social care services essential to create high effectiveness for
delivery of quality care. In this, car nurses need to deal with multiple type of stress along with
difficult situation which should be face during providing better health care services to vulnerable
patients. This can include creating difficulty in dealing with work stress and well-being and care
at risk of having depression, anxiety along with stress disorder. There are healthcare
professionals in which care nurses highly associated with getting exposed towards stress and
anxiety which have including high-pressure conditions as wellbeing. Due to getting proper
training of specific resilience, it can help nursing staff to use the coping strategy which are
essential for managing their work life balance. These are specifically for those nursing staff were
having responsible for providing effective medical care to their patient. In this report, there is
discussion about the multiple physical and psychological impacts of pressure and stress on the
mental well-being within care nurses. There is also discussion about the factor which can help to
enhance nurses well-being. This report also includes link between mental well-being and
resilience which can have impact on overall well-being in a positive aspect. This report also
consists the information about multiple factor that negatively influences over well-being. This
also includes method which can help to manage mental well-being more effectively (Duncan,
(2019)).
MAIN BODY
The physical and psychological impact of stress and pressure or on mental welding
There is high impact of pressure and stress or individual mental well-being while
providing better health care services in the organization. Here, nurses are having high impact
where they have the job which are highly demanding and needed to take care of a patient for
longer time period. Through this, it create difficulty for care nurses that also reduces the chance
of satisfaction and decreases productivity within the organizational quality of care for the patient
care. These some of the factor which can have high negative influence and creative negative
impact on mental well-being of care nurses. This create difficulty for care nurses which are
associated with their job role (Henshall et. al., (2020)).
Care Nursing staff have a demanding task that they need to perform and have difficult to
cope with such type of difficult situation. In this, they need some skill where it may include team

working which can be effective to deal effectively with the stressful condition. This can also help
to deal with the emotional burden which are generally faced by variety of stresses. In contact
with psychological impact during providing care services to patient care, nurses may face various
challenges and difficulties like handling difficult patient, having an inadequate number of staff
members, emotional, inadequate clinical supervision and many more which can create difficulty
for care nurses to handle the situation more easily. These are some of the factor which are
effective and created difficulty for care nurses and occur depression and stress conditions that
have negative impact on there mental well-being.
The connection between resilience and mental welding
Resilience in the healthcare organization along with for the professionals. It is critical
such as care nurses who are having high risk of developing burnout due to their high demanding
job role (Juvet et. al., (2021)). They are having various roles and responsibilities where they need
to perform and create physical burnout that have also negative impact on mental well-being. Due
to continue working and high demanding task needed continue performance of care nurses. This
may create physical burnout and lead to create a negative impact on their mental well-being. This
can also create capability to overcome with mental stress. Here, new situation needed to be
adopted however resilience needed to be included for the care nurses which can be highly
effective. This can help to enhance mental well-being through managing self-esteem and
capacity to regulate their thoughts and emotions more easily.
Factors affecting improve well wing
There are various factor that are highly effective and can enhance well being of care
nurses. This may also include effective communication skills. With the help of using effective
communication, it can enable care nurses to take care of their patient health conditions and
communicate with them more easily. Here, using the communication skill, it can also interact
with another staff member that can be helpful to overcome from the stressful condition and
pressure (Yu et. al., (2019)). This can also provide a better fluency on mental health. Care nurses
need to get specific training like resilience training, self-awareness, promotion of emotional
intelligence and many more. Here, nursing staff member and other healthcare professionals
should organize resilience which can influence care nurses to avoid the risk of demotivation and
feel better mental health. Through applying this, it can be effective and help to provide quality of
care to their vulnerable patient by care nurses.

Factor having negative impact on well being and how to avoid it it
There are various factors which have high impact either direct or indirect on nurses
mental health and their well-being. There are some of the factor which are going to be discussed
further.
Insufficient credits- Due to working longer time period and having high workload within
the hospital, care Nursing staff perform very well and large number of task. Getting less credit, it
create demotivation for them that hurt their mental well-being.
Job stress- Nursing work is considered as a profession which are highly linked with the
stress of various kinds. This create difficulty for nursing staff to deal with the situation of
physical tiredness that can have negative impact on long term on mental health and their well-
being. Nursing staff have the roles and responsibilities which they need to perform for providing
better and quality health care services to patient from time of admission to getting a discharge
(Chen et. al., (2021)).
Lower organizational support- Nursing staff have lower organizational support within the
private hospital or healthcare organization. It has been observe that private hospital nursing staff
have lower support than the nursing staff who are working in the government sector. It is an
important factor that has high impact on nursing staff mental health and their well-being. It can
include positive aspects and self-esteem.
Night shift- There is also high Impact of working where night shift leads to create
difficulty for nursing staff and have a more prone to exhausting physically and mentally.
Behavior link with resilience
As working as a healthcare staff member, nursing staff has important to develop
resilience which can be highly effective and can help to sustain the ability to deal with demand
within nursing profession. Resilience can be refer as a practice with can help to accepted the fact
about stress going to be a part of a daily life in which they need to effectively deal with it in
positive manner (Carpio et. al., (2018)). Nursing staff need to develop or build it easily and
switch can be highly effective and can have a positive impact on their behaviour. This can lead to
create better mental health and better adaptation towards their high demanding job role.
Resilience can be effective and can help them to accept the stressful condition and work more
effectively without getting highly exhausted and feel comfortable with their job condition which
is highly demanding. It can help nursing staff to find patient more friendly and make the

environment more positive. This can help to make a better environment regarding delivery of
health care service for the patient. It has been observe that nursing staff having better mental
health and the nursing staff who does not have developed positive resilience. It has been observe
that nursing staff with resilience have a high ability to perform their task more effectively and
improve their performance with positive aspect (Merchant, (2021)).
Ways to build resilience
To build resilience nursing staff need to learn about the actual meaning of resilience and
its benefit. There are some of the ways through which nursing staff can build their resilience
which are going to be discuss further.
 Practicing replacement of negative thought with positive.
 They need to set small achievable goal to complete a big task.
 They should practice flexibility and their behaviour to address any situation more
effectively.
 Nursing staff should maintain better relationships with their other staff member and patient
to tackle situation more effectively (Yu et. al., (2021)).
Method for managing and maintaining mental well-being along with building resilience
It is essential to manage and maintain mental well-being while delivering health care
services to patient. In this, there is need to build resilience which can play an important role in
managing mental health and workload simultaneously. There is need to use communication skill
that can be effective and can help to communicate different task more effectively. This can also
include expressing gratitude towards colleagues and patients that can help to create a positive
impact on every individual. It can also created positive environment support and better mental
well-being (Gupta et. al., (2020)).
Showing gratitude can help nursing staff to build better relationships with their staff
member and patient and help to build positive impact. This can help to sort of duties and
effectively manage high workload with healthy mental state. Here, healthcare organizations also
need to take care of mental health of every staff member which can be effective to perform their
role and provide quality of care services to their patient for improved health. It can also include
the focus on working conditions which should reduce the stress among nurses (Vos et. al.,
(2020)).

CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that there are various area like physical
environment, patient care and working condition which need to create high impact on a nursing
job role. There is need to maintain distress and pressure which can occurred due to long-hour
working. In this report, there is a discussion about specific method or programs which can help
introduce distress and pressure. This includes resilience towards workload that can help to
improve better mental health and well-being of nurses.

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