Strategies for Better Emotional Health for Nurses: Clinical Project

This presentation addresses the critical issue of emotional health among nurses, highlighting the stressful conditions they face and the resulting impact on job satisfaction, absence rates, and overall well-being. It emphasizes the relevance of this topic, linking a healthy workforce to quality healthcare delivery. The presentation outlines the objective of identifying emotional constraints experienced by nurses and the benefits of this knowledge, such as developing motivation strategies and stress reduction techniques. Literature findings support the correlation between occupational stress and job dissatisfaction, burnout, and psychological distress. The conclusion underscores the potential for increased turnover rates and emphasizes the importance of improved communication and workload management to mitigate stress. The presentation references studies that provide further insight into these issues, offering a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions for enhancing nurses' emotional health. Desklib provides access to this presentation and other solved assignments.

Strategies for Better Emotional
Health for Nurses
Student’s Name
University Affiliation

Introduction
 Most nurses undergo stressful conditions which impact their lives
negatively.
 Stressful situation leads to;
-Increased absence,
-Dissatisfaction,
-Psycho-spiritual distress and
-Emotional turmoil.
 Job satisfaction in nursing will be stressed in this presentation.

Reasons and Relevance of this topic
 Hospitals like to achieve quality continually, but this requires a healthy
workforce.
 The topic will create awareness on the stressful conditions that nurses go through
in their workplace.
Reasons
 To assess the level of satisfaction among nurses.
 To allow readers understand the problems that nurses endure when delivering
services to patients.

Main Objective and Benefits
 Objective: to determine the emotional constraints that nurses undergo through due to
the work they undertake.
Benefits
 Nurse leaders can develop ways of motivating nurses and increasing their self-esteem.
 The study Can help to generate of better strategies to prevent or reduce stress among
nurses.
 Nurses can learn on ways of reducing stress such as working in teams to reduce
workload (Jordan, Khubchandani, and Wiblishauser, 2016).

Literature findings to support the advantages of
learning this skill
Occupational stress can lead to job dissatisfaction (Lu, Zhao,
& While, 2019).
There is increased burnout in nursing due to reduced
satisfaction (Lu, Barriball, Zhang & While, 2012).
Most nurses experience psychological distress in their jobs
which affects their satisfaction (Olatunde & Odusanya, 2015).

Conclusion and implications
The study implies that turnover rates may increase leading to a
decrease in staff members.
I have learned that nurses face many challenges while providing
health services leading to stressful conditions.
I think that nurses should be treated well and communication should
be enhanced in the healthcare departments to reduce the workloads
reduce stress.

References
Jordan, T. R., Khubchandani, J., &Wiblishauser, M. (2016). The impact of perceived stress and coping
adequacy on the health of nurses: A pilot investigation. Nursing research and practice, 2016.
Lu, H., Zhao, Y., & While, A. (2019). Job satisfaction among hospital nurses: a literature
review. International journal of nursing studies.
Lu, H., Barriball, K. L., Zhang, X., & While, A. E. (2012). Job satisfaction among hospital nurses revisited:
a systematic review. International journal of nursing studies, 49(8), 1017-1038.
Olatunde, E. B., &Odusanya, O. (2015). Job satisfaction and psychological well-being among mental
health nurses. International Journal of Translation & Community Medicine, 3(3), 64-70.