Professional training in mental health self-care for nurses starting work in hospital departments

Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-590
Author(s):  
Monika Bernburg ◽  
David Groneberg ◽  
Stefanie Mache
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Stress Management Training ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress

BACKGROUND: Nurses working in hospitals can suffer from occupational stress due to high workloads and low job and/or personal resources. This can lead to work-related stress, exhaustion, health problems, and low quality of care. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of work-related self-care skill training for nurses. METHODS: A pilot study was conducted with 94 nurses in hospital departments in Germany. Nurses were either assigned to the intervention group that received competence training or to a waitlist control group. The intervention took place in groups over a period of 12 weeks. Training content included i.e. work-related stress management training, problem-solving techniques, and solution-focused counselling. The outcomes studied were changes in work-related stress, emotional exhaustion, emotion regulation, and job satisfaction. Three follow-up assessments were arranged. RESULTS: Nurses in the IG achieved a decrease in perceived job stress and emotional exhaustion as well as improvements with regard to enhanced emotion regulation skills. The intervention was evaluated with high satisfaction scores. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed first indications that training of mental health self-care skills for junior nurses could be a supportive approach for nurses starting work in hospital departments. However, replication studies are needed to verify the results.

Mad doctors? The significance of medical practitioners admitted as patients to the first English county asylums up to 1890

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alannah Tomkins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Impact

‘Mad doctors’ specialized in treating the insane, but what about the doctors whose own mental health was jeopardized? Oppenheim found that doctors who attended the mad were presumed to be particularly vulnerable, but there has been no research investigating this claim, nor identifying practitioners’ experiences as patients. This article analyses medical admissions to asylums via both case notes and other sources such as newspaper reports, revealing the responses of medical superintendents to their former colleagues and, in some cases, the judgements of practitioners on their institutional surroundings. It indicates the impact of work-related stress, as medicine became self-consciously professional, and the evolution of public reactions to doctors who could not maintain an appropriately sane identity.

Influence of the Supervisory Working Alliance on Supervisee Work Satisfaction and Work-Related Stress

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Sterner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Working Alliance ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Supervisory Working Alliance ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Professional Mental Health ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Related Stress

This article presents an empirical study that identified agency supervisees' perceptions of clinical supervision and its influence on work satisfaction and work-related stress in professional settings. Because there is a paucity of literature addressing supervision of professional counselors, there is a need to better understand what influence supervision has beyond academic settings. Participants were 71 members of the American Mental Health Counseling Association who were selected using a criterion-based random sample methodology. The methodology pulls together a unique combination of variables and instruments for exploration with professional mental health counselors. Results revealed relationships between work setting, supervisees' perceptions of the supervisory working alliance, work satisfaction, and work-related stress variables. Implications for practice, training, and research are discussed.

Work-related stress: Implications for physical and mental health

2016 ◽  
Vol 146 (8) ◽  
pp. 359-366
Author(s):  
Ricard Navinés ◽  
Rocío Martín-Santos ◽  
Victòria Olivé ◽  
Manuel Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress

scholarly journals Effects of Social Support on the Stress-Health Relationship: Gender Comparison among Military Personnel

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Ming Hsieh ◽  
Bi-Kun Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
And Gender

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the role of workplace social support and gender affect the relationship between work stress and the physical and mental health of military personnel in Taiwan. The analysis results reveal that military personnel expressed significantly high perceptions of work-related stress. Social support from supervisors and colleagues is a crucial factor in buffering the effect of work-related stress on perceived health, and increasing the physical and mental health among military personnel. This study shows that male personnel who perceived higher stress and gained more social support from supervisors and colleagues than female personnel were less likely to have physical and mental issues than female personnel. Managerial implications and suggestions could serve as references in managing work-related stress, enhancing social support occurring in the military workplace, and reducing job dissatisfaction, which in turn improves the health and well-being of military personnel in Taiwan.

scholarly journals Caseload Management, Work-Related Stress and Case Manager Self-Efficacy Among Victorian Mental Health Case Managers

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 453-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert King
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Case Manager ◽  
Case Managers ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Personal Efficacy ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress

Objective: In Australia and comparable countries, case management has become the dominant process by which public mental health services provide outpatient clinical services to people with severe mental illness. There is recognition that caseload size impacts on service provision and that management of caseloads is an important dimension of overall service management. There has been little empirical investigation, however, of caseload and its management. The present study was undertaken in the context of an industrial agreement in Victoria, Australia that required services to introduce standardized approaches to caseload management. The aims of the present study were therefore to (i) investigate caseload size and approaches to caseload management in Victoria's mental health services; and (ii) determine whether caseload size and/or approach to caseload management is associated with work-related stress or case manager self-efficacy among community mental health professionals employed in Victoria's mental health services. Method: A total of 188 case managers responded to an online cross-sectional survey with both purpose-developed items investigating methods of case allocation and caseload monitoring, and standard measures of work-related stress and case manager personal efficacy. Results: The mean caseload size was 20 per full-time case manager. Both work-related stress scores and case manager personal efficacy scores were broadly comparable with those reported in previous studies. Higher caseloads were associated with higher levels of work-related stress and lower levels of case manager personal efficacy. Active monitoring of caseload was associated with lower scores for work-related stress and higher scores for case manager personal efficacy, regardless of size of caseload. Although caseloads were most frequently monitored by the case manager, there was evidence that monitoring by a supervisor was more beneficial than self-monitoring. Conclusion: Routine monitoring of caseload, especially by a workplace supervisor, may be effective in reducing work-related stress and enhancing case manager personal efficacy.

Some health effects of work-related stress among nurses working in critical care units

2021 ◽  
pp. 074823372097741
Author(s):  
A Seif Eldin ◽  
Dina Sabry ◽  
Marwa Abdelgwad ◽  
Mona Abdallah Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Critical Care Nurses ◽  
Exposed Group ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Stimulating Hormone

Occupational stress is a major health problem among nurses. Critical care nurses appear to experience more stress at work compared to others. Stress is associated with multiple system disorders, hormonal, and immunological disturbances, and genetic effects. The aim of our study was the detection of health effects of work-related stress and to investigate the link between stress and immune response, alterations of hormones, and expression of micro-RNA (miRNA) among critical care nurses. An exposed 80 critical care nurses matched to 80 controls were involved in our study. Full history, psychological assessment using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ12) and a complete clinical examination were done for both groups. Serum interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free triiodothyronine, and free thyroxine (FT4) were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, micro-RNA26, and 142 extractions. The exposed group had a mean age of 41 ± 10 years old and mean work duration of 22 ± 9.7 years, matched to 80 controls. The exposed group (32.5%) was associated with severe psychological distress (GHQ scores > 20) compared to only 5% among controls. In addition, the exposed group had a significantly higher level of miRNA 26, miRNA 142, TSH, LH, and IL-6 when compared to the control group. However, there a significantly lower level of FT4 among the exposed group compared to the control group, there were no statistically significant differences between the studied participants regarging FT3,FSH and IL-10 levels. Stress is prevalent among critical care nurses and is reflected on their psychological health with an increase in inflammatory cytokines and disturbances in endocrine functions.

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