NURSING
Resources for nurses, healthcare workers and their families.
Critical Incidents Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses and their Need for Support
Author: Jacoba de Boer, Simone van Rikxoort, Arnold B Bakker and Bert J Smit
Date: 2013
Facing a critical incident may disrupt certainties of existence, such as invulnerability, justice and positive self image. Nurses high emotional involvement with their patients can leave them particularly vulnerable to these feelings. This paper explores the measures that management and peer support can enact to assist nurses through these traumatic experiences.
Fitness to Practice Nursing
Author: College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia
Date: 2008
Nursing is a stressful profession. Caring for clients, families and communities with multiple, complex and distressing problems can be overwhelming for even the most experienced practitioner. Add to this the uncertainty of few resources and greater demands, this paper explores the steps nursing staff can take to care for, and prepare for their professional and personal lives.
Nursing in General Practice
Author: Australian College of Nursing
Date: 2015
Nurses are key members of multidisciplinary primary healthcare teams in general practice. This paper outlines the regulatory frameworks for nursing, and the differing and diverse roles they play in the healthcare system.
Stress Management for Nurses
Author: New South Wales Nurses Association (Collaborative)
Date: 2006
It is widely recognised that nurses have mastered the art of anticipating and attending to the physical and emotional needs of others. Unfortunately, nurses sometimes forget how to take care of themselves and others. Written by nurses, for nurses, this booklet helps promote understanding of mental health in the individual nursing professional and their peers.
The Impact of Traumatic Events and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Correctional Nurses
Author: Wayne D. Corneil & Brian Cox.
A study of instances of intrusive thoughts, avoidance strategies and PTSD among correctional nurses following traumatic events.
The Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Intensive Care Unit Staff and the Common Coping Strategies Used.
A study of PTSD amongst ICU nurses, and the coping strategies used by staff, including active coping mechanisms.
Work Health and Safety Essentials for Nurses and Midwives
Author: New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association
Date: 2013
Nurses and midwives work in a variety of roles in many different workplaces. This resource has been developed to provide the essentials for nurses and midwives to meet the challenges of workplace health and safety in daily practice among a variety or roles and workplaces.
Workplace Bullying in Health Care: Peet-to-Peer Bullying of Nurses
Author: Michelle Kaminski & Ann Kettering Sincox
Date: July, 2012
Workplace bullying is defined as repeated, health-harming mistreatment of a worker involving a range of adverse and hostile behaviours. Both targets and witnesses of bullying are more likely to experience decreased job satisfaction, lower self-esteem, and mental health issues. This paper explores the consequences workplace bullying in healthcare, and the cost to the community.
Work-Related Critical Incidents in Hospital-Based Health Care Providers.
Author: Jacoba de Boes, Anja Lok, Ellen van’t Verlaat, Hugh Duivenvoorden, Arnold Bakker & Bert Smit
Date: 2011
A meta-analysis of the risks of post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety and depression in health care professionals following critical incidents.
Running on Empty – Compassion Fatigue in Health Professionals
Author: Francoise Mathieu
Date: 2007
Compassion fatigue has been described as the cost of caring, and is an occupational hazard for everybody how cares for patients. This paper explores the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue in health care professionals.