The Importance Of Work Environment For Nurses

As nurses, we spend long hours in our workplaces, for that it is important for us to have a safe working environment. In fact, there are three things that can affect health which includes physical aspect of work and the workplace which is influenced by exposure to physical risks and hazards such as needles pricks. It also includes psychosocial aspects of work and how work is organized. And finally, work-related resources and opportunities such as employee benefits, which is influenced by the ability to secure resources for the employee such as healthy housing and medical care. Furthermore, all of the above can increase the incidence of stress which affects the nurse’s physical and mental health (Davidson, 2014). Moreover, according to The …show more content…
According to one study Work Environment and Its Relationship to Quality Improvement (2016) done on 532 nurses and physicians, 94% from nurses reported good to excellent in work quality. 34.9% of nurses were between 40 to 50 years old. 42.4% for nurses who were working for less than 20 years. 34% from nurse working for more than 15 years in there unite. Furthermore, according to a study made on nurses’ ratings of their health and professional work in terms of physical activity practice and nutritional activity practice. The result show that about 6% of participants reported rarely or never engaging in any physical activates. 45% reported engaging in level below the centers for disease control and prevention. 50% reported meeting the centers for disease control. Less than the half of the participants engaging in the muscles strength to increase the level of the flexibility (Table 1) (Hussein, & Abou Hashish, 2016). More than that, a study was done about the Work-Related Injuries, and Abuse Histories shows, that 62 % of nurses are experiencing verbal or emotional abuse from a patient and 44% from a colleague. It shows that, 32% of nurses reported physical abuse by a patient, whereas only 1.4% reported physical abuse by a colleague. 34 % reported a personal history of emotional or verbal abuse and 10% a history of physical abuse (Figure 2) (Tucker, Harris, Pipe, & Stevens, 2010). According to one article out of eight, the job stress was the strongest factor that impact nurse’s health in the work environment. The result of that is the more stress in the work environment, the more emotional exhaustion would be. Besides, education factor considered the second strongest factor that impact nurse level of stress. Out of the 717 nurses, 18 were male, 699 females in terms of the educational level, 49.4% an associate degree and 39.7% a bachelor’s degree. 10.9% of participants has