The Modified Caregiver Role Strain results and reflection. Many people provide care for physically, mentally sick people who are not able to care for themselves; for some, it is their chosen job and for others it is family responsibility. Many caregivers have multiple responsibilities including their own professional work, family and social obligations. Balancing multiple roles can be difficult and stressful, and can result in a caregiver’s fatigue and burnout, and it can affect his/her physical and mental health (Touhy & Jett, 2012).…
Journal Article Summary Flarity, K., Eric Gentry, J., & Mesnikoff, N. (2013). The effectiveness of an educational program on preventing and treating compassion fatigue in emergency nurses [Electronic version]. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, 35(3), 247-258. Introduction - Emergency Room (ER) nurses risk compassion fatigue due to multiple work environment stressors such as; noise level, patient volume, continuous influx of patients, frequency of patient deaths, witnessing devastating trauma and illness. Compassion fatigue leads to psychological and physical problems resulting in decreased job satisfaction and performance.…
Hospitals should reconsider their policy on using twelve-hour shifts over eight-hour shifts. The main reasons hospital facilities introduced twelve-hour shifts was to reduce hand offs, decrease the amount of money they were spending and they thought if they offered the shifts they would have more employee retention. The only statistics they should care about is real and unacceptable risks to patient safety and satisfaction as well as their employees’ health. The research presented in this paper is conclusive in showing that these statistics improve if shifts were to be shortened or if the nurse was given adequate recovery time. Fatigue is silent but deadly, not only to patients but also to nurses.…
Compassion fatigue can be alarming and nurses are struggling to find a place in the health care system to receive help and recognize what this type of nurse stress means while practicing in this profession. The consequences of nurses with prolonged, untreated compassion fatigue have yet to be researched or recognized. Because of this, nurses play a vital role in contributing to the prevention of compassion fatigue within their profession. While the role of a nurse is to put feelings aside to provide urgent care…
A great career that includes a competitive environment, educational opportunities, well paid salary and easy transitions yet also comes with a major risk. The risk of becoming fatigued to the point of complete burnout or worse, a nervous breakdown, is prevalent among nurses. The suck it up mentality of today’s workforce leaves little room for consideration of a nurse’s well-being. However, it is imperative that nursing leaders and management pay close attention to their employees health, physical and mental, and incorporate programs that facilitate a healthy work environment that raises morale and…
How would you (or do you) cope with chronic pain or chronic fatigue? By experiencing the pain I currently have in the back of my right thigh. The pain would happen at any time when standing, and/or when sitting. So far the pain has been ongoing, and the doctors I have seen told me they could find nothing wrong.…
(2002). Massachusetts Nurse, 72(2), 1-6. Stimpfel, A. W., Sloane, D. M., & Aiken, L. H. (2012). The longer the shifts for hospital Nurses, the higher the levels of burnout and patient dissatisfaction. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 31(11), 2501–2509.…
The reality is, our current nurse staffing is really impacting individual nurses ability to provide care. Approximately 55% of nurses confessed that they always or almost always feel fatigued during work, and 80% feel this way after work (CNA,…
Treatment For Chronic Fatigue – What Are The Different Approaches Available Summary: Treatment for chronic fatigue is available, but you need to visit the right doctor fo the best results. Treatment for chronic fatigue has different approaches. Main Content: It’s not an easy or simple task to treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as there’s no standard regimen for treatment that may work on every patient. The doctor has to take a different approach for every patient.…
Nursing is known as being the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities. It is also acknowledged as being an aid in the prevention of illness and injury, assistance of healing, relief of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human beings, and for advocating for not only the patients, but family members, whole communities, and populations (American Nurses Association, 2016.) Nursing requires ample skill, strength, and compassion in every dimension of the scope of nursing but often these intense and strategic job types relentlessly face fatigue on every level including physical, emotional and mental exhaustion. Compassion fatigue is an ever growing problem around the world and is affecting millions of nurses and medical professionals who work on…
Nurses enter the health-care profession out of compassion and a desire to care for others. They are sensitive to the needs of others. But nursing is one of the most demanding careers. Nurses deal with pain, suffering, and fear on a daily basis. Adding to the emotional challenge, is the physical demands of long hours and being on their feet all day.…
A major safety issue that flight schools are dealing with is fatigue. Fatigue effects both student pilots and flight instructors and is known to be one of the top contributors to accidents within aviation. According to the Federal Aviation Administration Air information Manuel fatigue “may not be apparent to the pilot until a serious error has been made” (“FAA AIM”, 2015, p. 8-1-2). The issue with fatigue is that it reduces the pilot’s ability to preform and is known to have impacts on memory which can cause a pilot to forget items and some limitations of the aircraft. This is especially concerning for student pilots who have little flight time and therefore are more susceptible to forget limitations and memory items increasing the possibility…
Kinesiologists Wei Guo, Biye Wang, Qin Zhu, and Jie Ren from the Shanghai University of Sport in China conducted a laboratory study where they investigated, using the scientific method of experimental research, whether or not listening to relaxing music helped with mental fatigue and maintained performance after a continuous performance task. The researchers did this by manipulating variables to determine causation. The manipulated variable was relaxing music, which they tested against mental fatigue. Their hypothesis before conducting the experiment was that “listening to relaxing music would result in a reduced subjective feeling of mental fatigue and reduce the negative effects of fatigue on cognitive motor performance”. They published their results in a research article titled, Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by Continuous Performance Task:…
and the facility would ultimately benefit by retaining their staff and having higher patient and staff satisfaction. A change agent is one who works to bring about a change in their environment. Although in the end, changing the way a facility motivates their staff and prevents burnout will benefit the nurses, patients, and the organization, being a change agent in the high-stress atmosphere of health care is not easy. Initiating change requires time, effort and energy (Sullivan, 2013).…
My Role Transition Reflection My role transition experience has been an overwhelming and incredible at the same time. On my first day, I was scared because I have no idea how my day would go. I was excited to learn too! My nurse preceptor is kind and incredibly patient with me to talk me through some procedures in administering medications and other patient-care needs.…