Work Life Balance in Hospital Staff: Policies and Practices

The assignment concludes that maintaining a work-life balance is essential for achieving both personal and professional goals, particularly in high-stress environments like hospitals. It reviews policies companies adopt to sustain this balance and zeroes in on hospital staff with extended working hours, especially Australian nursing staff who face low enrolment due to stress, long shifts, and heavy workloads. The report highlights consequences of poor work-life balance such as sleep deprivation, depression, decreased motivation, obesity, and other health issues. Recommendations include implementing a mental health scheme with full-time psychiatrists on trial basis and therapy sessions for nurses. It suggests that high employee turnover is linked to poor work-life balance, proposing reduced working hours, collective offs, and four-day workweek trials to improve staff wellbeing and performance evaluation.

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Conclusion

Conclusion
It can be concluded that Work Life balance is significant to be maintained in order to achieve
personal and professional goals. The companies are framing many policies and adopting
practices which helps them to maintain work life balance (Goyal, 2014). The report
focussed on maintaining the work life balance of hospital staff that has longer working hours.
The situation of nursing staff in Australia have been discussed which shows low enrolment in
the nursing courses. The reasons might be the high levels of stress, longer shifts and high
workloads. The body clock of people does not get time to adjust and it also affects their work
performance. The effects of imbalanced work life have been discussed which includes sleep
deprived, depression, decreased motivation, obesity, poor health and more. Also some
recommendation has been given on the basis of the mental health scheme and employee care.
The suggestions involved the appointment of a full time psychiatrist on a trial basis, therapy
sessions for the nurses. It can also be concluded that poor Work Life balance has led to high
turnover of employees. The work life balance is also connected to time. Reduction in the
working hours will improve the balance between professional life and personal life of the
nurses (Skinner & Chapman, 2013). The employees should be given collective off from work
so that they can be calm and stable. Four day Working week contract should be proposed and
the performance of the employees should be evaluated after that. This would help the
organisation to know whether the steps taken by them are fruitful or not.

References
Goyal, B. (2014). Work Life Balance of Nurses and Lady Doctors. International Journal of
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Skinner, N. J., & Chapman, J. (2013). Work-life balance and family friendly
policies (Doctoral dissertation, ANZSOG-The Australia and New Zealand School o).