this presentation illustrates how stress is hazardous to workers at medical facilities

1. STRESS – A POTENTIAL HAZARD
TO HOSPITAL WORKERS

2. 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

3. Dependent and severe patients
Postmortem of dead bodies
Death of patients in charge
Inadequate staff
Lack of interpersonal relationship among staff

4. 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

5. 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

6. There are some possible remedies for managing work stresses
successfully at hospital;
Instruct workers and management about the issues
Take into account work and time related stresses such as
workload, lack of resources, improper machinery and
equipment, indecent work place.
Stress management strategies

7. Arrange meeting to discuss about time management
issues and take opinions of every one who
encounters the issues.
Organize time and stress management programs

8. 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.

9. Reasonable working schedules should be given to every
employee
The use of individual approaches such as relaxation
exercises and biofeedback to relieve symptoms of stress
until the sources are identified and evaluated.

10. Educate employees with individual working exercises for
stress relaxation and time, management
Motivational seminars should be arranged to re-energize
the workers
Provide frequent in-service educational sessions and
other opportunities to improve skills and confidence.

11. 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.