Hospital & Healthcare Centres
Counsellors are important members of the healthcare team who ensure the mental wellbeing of patients as well as other healthcare workers like doctors, nurses, etc. Doctors and nurses could face burnout due to excessive caseloads and their long work shifts.
Mental Stress & Physical Strain:
Healthcare workers are trained to put patients first. During the pandemic healthcare professionals were directly exposed to the virus, and they witnessed so many deaths. Fear of exposing their family to Covid, worry about their own health, frustration, and anxiety due to the increasing number of deaths took a toll on their mental as well as physical health. Counsellors in these settings help the professionals vent out their emotions and take steps to ensure their mental well-being.
In recent years, there has been increase in the mental health needs of healthcare providers as too many of them suffer from stress, insomnia and even depression, which is a threat to quality care delivery.
Reactions:
Common stress reactions include tension, inability to concentrate, frustration and a variety of physical symptoms that include headache.
Remedies:
Our well-trained professional counsellors provide supportive counselling, relationship counselling, mindfulness training, compassion fatigue management skills etc.
Empowering Healthcare Workforce:
Healthcare workers and physicians require support just as much as any regular person. Something as simple as checking in with colleagues go a long way, helping them reduce their stress and anxiety and reminding that they are not going through this alone. When it’s difficult to talk with a friend or spouse, talking with a mental health professional will help address their stress. Having a therapeutic vent session is extremely helpful not just to get concerns out in open, but to share ideas on how to improve things. There can even be a change of place, as meeting outside of work once in a while; talking things out would certainly help out a lot as they can be more candid in verbalizing their concerns.
A healthy healthcare workforce not only ensures mental health and comfort but also makes workers more equipped in taking care of patients and communities. Health care workers deal with challenging health crisis where important decisions – concerning life and death – are required to be made fast. It is time that we prioritize organizational measures, policies, and systemic changes required to address these challenges and empower healthcare workers going forward.
Exercising Self-care:
To protect and promote the mental health of healthcare providers, counsellors remind them of the importance of self-care along with enough emotional support. Instead of fearing judgement from others or feeling selfish at the thought of attending to their own needs, practicing self-care will help them not only to cope with the obligations & workload, but also to gain a better work–life balance and to ably meet the demands of their profession. Nurses are even less likely to have enough emotional support than other healthcare workers. Successful management of stress is essential to the well-being of not only the nurses but patients as well.
Seeking Professional Help: Manage Stress & Perform the Best:
Major causes of stress in nursing include dealing with death, conflict with other staff, and inadequate preparation toward dealing with emotional needs of a patient’s family. As a consequence, there might be either gain in weight due to increased food intake or loss of appetite. This causes anxiety and decreases work performance which can lead to serious mental and physical problems. This Negative stress is perceived to be outside of our coping abilities, and so this is where you should seek professional help from mental health clinics. Healthcare workers need to know that it’s okay to seek professional help when stressors at work become unbearable, work performance suffers and patient safety is at risk.
Healthcare workers often care for others without pausing to care for themselves. This culture needs to shift. It’s easy for healthcare workers to experience “compassion fatigue”. Staying in touch with one’s own feelings and emotions and recognizing stress and the effect it has on one’s life will help health care workers maintain a long and healthy career.
Benefits:
Major advantages of stress management are improved job performance, efficient workplace, improved attitude & overall health of healthcare professionals, which will result in giving the best care to the patients who are in need.
Role of Element H in this industry
- Assessment for screening and diagnosis of psychosocial and emotional problems.
- Stress management for nurses and doctors.
- Counselling for support staff.
- Psychometric assessments and psychotherapy for emotional dysregulation, career assessments and guidance, programs to resolve psychological distress during the pandemic.
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