Application of Concept Analysis to Clinical Practice

Response Paper on: Role Stress amongst Nurses at the Workplace: Concept Analysis

Introduction

Currently the word stress has been much contested, associated with feelings of discomfort, and increasing the number of people who define themselves as stressed or relate to others in the same situation. Stress is often viewed as something negative that causes damage in the overall performance of the individual. Stressor is a situation or experience that generates feelings of tension, anxiety, fear or threat can be internal or external origin. Stress should not be understood as a static condition, it is a very complex phenomenon and dynamic. Special attention has been given to so-called occupational stressors, i.e., stresses and problems arising from the exercise of a professional activity. Nurse's work, by its nature and characteristics, proves particularly susceptible to the phenomenon of occupational stress. Study of 1,800 nurses showed that 93% of them said they felt stressed at work (Riahi, 2011).

Although nursing has been classified by the Health Education Authority, as the fourth most stressful profession in the public sector, there are few studies that seek to investigate the problems associated with the exercise of the profession of nursing. Nursing is a stressful job and this fact is related to working with people who suffer and require great demand attention, compassion and sympathy (Farquharson et al. 2012). The nurse when dealing with this situation may feel angry, depressed and disappointed. These feelings may be considered incompatible with the professional performance, thus bringing guilt and increased anxiety.

This paper is a response paper on Riahi, S. paper's Role Stress amongst Nurses at the Workplace: Concept Analysis.

Discussion

It is very important to understand the reality experienced by the multidisciplinary team that works in intensive care. This understanding requires, among other things, the identification of factors that hinder their performance, which may be contributing to the depersonalization of patient care and his family, causing detachment, stress and suffering team. The environment of the hospital is extremely stressful and the group that operates in this site requires care, because the result of the work depends on the team as a whole (Riahi, 2011).

The emotional profile of nurses working in hospitals undergoes changes in the course of duty, which can be related to stress and burnout own activity to provide assistance, particularly in those units where there is demand for high level skills and need for immediate responses in emergencies. There are variables that also interfere with the performance of nurses in hospitals, such as an extremely dry, cold, closed and artificial lighting; internal noise continuous and intermittent constant interrelationship between the same people on the team, throughout the shift, and as the excessive demands of security, respect and responsibility for the patient in suffering, pain and impending death, to guarantee the quality of care (Wu et al. 2010). These indicators certainly result in a climate of exhausting work and tense, causing discouragement, conflict between team members and stress to the working group and in particular to ...