“Nurses are especially vulnerable to the stresses that are inherent in their work,” according to Stuart Nelson, The Nurses’ Coach, who specialises in helping nurses to reconnect with their passion for nursing. He sees overcoming nurse stress as the most important part of his job.
[UKPRwire, Fri Jul 28 2006] “Nurses are especially vulnerable to the stresses that are inherent in their work,” according to Stuart Nelson, The Nurses’ Coach, who specialises in helping nurses to reconnect with their passion for nursing. He sees overcoming nurse stress as the most important part of his job.
Nelson, who carries out personality assessments in the course of his stress management work, has studied the four profiles that are commonly attracted to the nursing profession and has concluded that these are the very people who are least equipped, temperamentally, to handle the very stresses that they encounter in hospital work.
“This should not come as a surprise,” he adds, pointing out that nurses tend to be caring individuals, and people who care will naturally find the experience of working with sick and dying patients distressing.
Nelson concludes from this finding that Governments and the employers of nurses are under a moral duty of care not to add to the stresses that nurses endure, beyond those that are inevitable in their normal work.
His website is http://www.NursesNeedCoaches, where a full article on his research can be read.
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