{"id":166,"date":"2023-08-18T08:58:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prd0jseasy.wpenginepowered.com\/nz\/mental-health-of-nurses\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:55:42","slug":"mental-health-of-nurses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/mental-health-of-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health of Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Protecting the Mental Health of Nurses<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hazardous Lifestyle Take a Toll on Nurses’ Mental Health<\/h3>

Around the world, a shortage of nurses is a growing concern in healthcare, but nowhere is this more prevalent than in Australia where a predicted need for over\u00a0109,000 nurses by 2025<\/a>\u00a0is already concerning those in the field. Nurses live a stressful life and one that is often imbalanced and sometimes unhealthy.<\/p>

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is difficult, nurses face on-the-job struggles that are not found in any other occupation and often\u00a0organising this is difficult<\/a>. The real struggle often lies in keeping mental health in good condition because juggling everything thrown at a nurse can be demanding.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hazardous Lifestyle Take a Toll on Nurses’ Mental Health<\/h3>
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Nurses work long shifts<\/a>, some between 8-12 hours long, with minimal breaks and a constant and varied workload. The demand for nurses is so high that most nurses feel judged when taking a short break or going out for lunch because the workload never seems to end in many cases. This is combined with hazardous working conditions in which nurses are subjected to: infection, unsafe chemicals, radiation, and assault. Circumstances like this come up daily for nurses, and they often do not get the appreciation or help they need in order to better help not only themselves but the patients as well.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How to Protect Your Health as a Nurse<\/h3>

There exists a wide range of ways that nurses can\u00a0take care of their mental health. The most important is a work-life balance. Remaining in hazardous conditions for too long can take its toll. Often nurses may feel that they have one duty in life, the patient, but nurses are humans too and deserve to have other interests in life as well as a strong social life in order to leave the workplace mentality behind. Leaving the workplace for some self-time is a good idea to promote better mental health.<\/p>

Sleep is also a big factor in maintaining a healthy balance in life. Over\u00a046% of nurses end up sleep deprived<\/a>\u00a0due to their erratic and demanding schedules.<\/p><\/div>

Prioritising sleep and reducing night shifts can help ensure well rested and healthier nurses.\u00a0 Exercise is likewise a big contributor to a person’s general well-being and nurses may often feel they do not get that chance because of their job demands. Nurses need to take time for themselves in order to cope with their stressful jobs and maintain this necessary balance.\u00a0Work shift fatigue is real<\/a>\u00a0and does not contribute to better quality healthcare, in fact, it harms it.\u00a0 Nurses are known as some of the hardest workers in the medical field, but that does not mean that they have to feel alone in their plight because there is help available.<\/p>

Creating and continuing healthy habits through prioritising sleep, exercise, and reducing time in the workplace when it gets to be too much, will allow nurses, and all other professionals, to have a better sense of self, work, and life in general. Taking the right steps towards better mental help is the first step in this process.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mental Health of Nurses Protecting the Mental Health of Nurses Lucy Lynnster Hazardous Lifestyle Take a Toll on Nurses’ Mental Health Around the world, a shortage of nurses is a growing concern in healthcare, but nowhere is this more prevalent than in Australia where a predicted need for over\u00a0109,000 nurses by 2025\u00a0is already concerning those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jseasy-safety-software.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}