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Stressed out? Relieve the pressure here!

We have all the stresses the rest of the world has and then some! Here are some of the things that cause nurses stress:

The critical nature of our work with its potential for serious injury to others if we are careless for even a moment.
Staffing shortages requiring us to care for more patients with less help.
Working double shifts or returning to work 8 hours after our shift ends to meet the needs.
Inadequate rest because of working rotating schedules so that our bodies have difficulty knowing when to sleep.
Working closely with deadly diseases. Knowing that an accidental needle-stick or body fluid splash can easily infect us.
Struggling with aches and pains from lifting and pulling on patients.
Seeing some of our co-workers permanently disabled because of on the job back injuries.
Watching people suffer. Being in the front lines of human need. Coping with family grief.
Losing patients we've grown close to in death.
Touching, bathing, applying dressings and wound care to those who are indecent toward us.
Giving physical care to those who are physically unclean.
Job layoffs, mergers, company failures, job insecurity.
Difficulties with co-workers or supervisors.
Unfair evaluations or expectations.
Lack of experience or knowledge in some areas of our nursing practice.
Potential for lawsuits.

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Article Source: CareNurse.com

1 comments:

Anonymous, April 7, 2009 9:05 AM: According to Edgar Cayce’ prediction “sound is the medicine for the 21st century”. His prediction is proven correct; one of the amazing findings of the 21st century is classical music.

There are increasing numbers of experts that testify the surprising benefits of classical music:

1. February 2005 (Journal of Advance nursing):

Found that older adults with sleep problems who listened for about 45 minutes to soft music at bedtime reported 35% improvement in their sleep.

Classical music is proven therapeutic to a lot of illness such as old age related conditions (like alzheimer), Brain injury, acute pain including mothers in labor, and physical disabilities. That is why in US classical music is played in psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation centers.

One hospital study found that heart patients received the same anxiety benefits from listening to 30 minutes classical music as they did from taking drug valium.

2. 2004 (London, England)

British Transport police play classical music to underground stations in some of the areas most dangerous neighborhoods. After 6 months of playing the music,

Robberies were cut by 33% , Staff assaults decreased by 25%, vandalism went down to 37%

3. 2001 (West Palm beach, Florida)

“It’s not practical to have a cop sitting there all day long”

“So what do we you do?”

“How do you change the scope of the neighborhood ”

Cops installed a CD player and speakers on an abandoned building in a crime- ridden neighborhood. After playing the music for 24 hours a day for about 3 months, Shootings, theft, loiterers and drug deal decreased.

4. Some supermarkets and stores in the US piped in music in their place. According to them classical music tend to put shoppers at ease, relax and look at the items for sale.

5. In the office classical music is used to reduce mood disturbance and job burnout.