STRESS – A POTENTIAL HAZARD

TO HOSPITAL WORKERS

Work at hospital demands dealing with most of the difficult and

stressful conditions found anywhere at job. these problems tends

to put stress on the worker at hospital Workers at hospital such

as doctors, nurses and maids:

Handle severe and life threatening damages

Serious and complicated illnesses Strict schedules

Complicated and sometimes out of order machinery

Complex hierarchy of systems and skills

Dependent and severe patients

Postmortem of dead bodies

Death of patients in charge

Inadequate staff

Lack of interpersonal relationship among staff

Effects of stress on hospital workers

Migraines, sleeping disorder, emotional imbalance

The social and personal life of the employees also gets

disturbed by the tight schedule and overloaded work.

Increase in intake of drugs and anti depression pills

The relation between the coworkers gets limited and

unpleasant due to time and stress management problems

Anxiety lies among the heart of time and stress management

problems at hospitals

difficulty in operating severe injuries

Deficiency of deliberation for emergency situations and

mental instability at handling typical cases

There are some possible remedies for managing work stresses successfully at hospital;

Instruct workers and management about the issuesTake into account work and time related stresses such as workload, lack of resources, improper machinery and equipment, indecent work place.Arrange meeting to discuss about time management issues and take opinions of every one who encounters the issues.Organize time and stress management programs

Stress management strategies

To avoid fatigue innovative tasks should be assigned after a particular time.A well organized and efficient working environment should be established at work place.Recognize and take action on legitimate complaints regarding overbearing physicians and supervisors.Reasonable working schedules should be given to every employeeThe use of individual approaches such as relaxation exercises and biofeedback to relieve symptoms of stress until the sources are identified and evaluated.

Educate employees with individual working exercises for stress relaxation and time, managementMotivational seminars should be arranged to re-energize the workers Provide frequent in-service educational sessions and other opportunities to improve skills and confidence.Workers at hospital are meant to provide health and care facilities, but their over scheduled routine effect their performance making them lethargic, anxious and depressed.