Health care workers are not immune to psychosocial problems and often may face distinctive obstacles in dealing with them. Self-care among physicians, nurses, and other health care workers is not included as a part of their training but it is an issue that often comes up in the course of their daily routines or in their professional practice. The stresses of professional practice, shift work, and personal life can be quite demanding and in cases where the individual neglects or fails to notice the warning signs of depression can lead to tragic consequences. According to most available data there is an increased vulnerability for depression and suicide in health care workers, particularly physicians and nurses. Depression is a particular concern in the health care industry given that health care workers, especially physicians and nurses, are directly responsible for the well-being of their patients who are often forced to depend on…...

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healthcare industry in the U.S., in particular the crisis in retaining healthcare workers. The paper will also discuss what can be done to retain these healthcare workers.
It is a well-known fact that the average age of healthcare workers in the U.S. is 40-45 years old, meaning that there are few new recruits coming to the profession (www.americanworkvisa.org).This, coupled with that fact that there is great job dissatisfaction amongst healthcare workers, means that retaining staff is also difficult: the lack of new recruits, and the difficulty of retaining staff means that there is, therefore, a shortage of healthcare professionals in the U.S. healthcare industry.

The shortage of healthcare workers is huge: there are 115,000 immediate job vacancies in this field, and it is expected that the industry will grow by 25.5% between 2000-2010, thus adding 1.3 million new jobs (www.doleta.gov).This is particularly frightening in terms of the future health prospects of…...

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Abstract
This paper is a systematic review that discusses the consequences of the current COVID-19 pandemic scenario on healthcare workers' mental health outcomes. The sources from which the articles used in this paper were systematically researched are PubMed, Lilacs, and BVS. The search for articles occurred between January to October of the year 2020. In searching the electronic databases, the following keywords were employed to create a search strategy: nervousness or social anxiety or anxieties, depressive or depression or emotional depression, mental or mental hygiene or hygiene, social or anxiety, mental and COVID-19 or Coronavirus, social or social anxieties or anxiety and depressions or depressive symptoms or depressive symptom or symptom, emotional or depressions, emotional or emotional depressions, and health. The systematic review findings showed that exposure to COVID-19 increased the incidence rate of symptoms of mental conditions such as anxiety and depression. The conclusion drawn from the review's findings is…...

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Gao, J., Zheng, P., Jia, Y., Chen, H., Mao, Y., Chen, S., ... & Dai, J. (2020). Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak. PloS one, 15(4), e0231924.

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Many of them who have worked for 20 years as nurses have gone up the managerial or corporate ladder. More and more nurses have chosen more paper work and less patient care by becoming supervisors, administrators and nursing directors and then retire or else proceed to another career if they are not yet retiring (enjamin).
Compounding the problem of shortage were a lack of surgical educational content and clinical experiences for nursing students, demands for professional nurses in ambulatory care surgical settings, and the difficulty itself of attracting and maintaining per-operative nurses (eyea, 2002). Managed care also required by more intense or complex illnesses and, thus, increased workloads and greater responsibility of nurses (enjamin, 2000). The situation correspondingly raised their level of "burn out." Hospital downsizing, managed care and an emphasis on outpatient services made the medical environment less dependent on nurses and more on facilities (enjamin).

Conclusion

The fast-aging population needs…...

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Implementation of a New Health Initiative TitleImplementation of Initiatives Designed to Enhance the Well-Being and Health of the Healthcare Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic.AbstractThere is a need for a detailed approach to address several elements of well-being and health to protect healthcare workers. This study unpacks the barriers and facilitators to the enaction of solutions to enhance the well-being and health of healthcare workers through the Covid-19 pandemic. This study adopted a collective case study approach because it allows multi-faceted, in-depth explorations of complex challenges in real-life settings. Participants in the study included representatives of 13 healthcare provider institutions. The study received multiple responses from the 13 organizations, outlining various initiatives within their facility. Multi-level preparedness and coordination are essential to ensure that initiatives for well-being and health can be enacted within a conducive space.IntroductionSince Covid-19 was identified in Wuhan, China, in 2019, it has continued to threaten lives across…...

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2. Amnesty International. (2020). Exposed, silenced, attacked: failures to protect health and essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare Admin
When firing or releasing employees it is very important to remember the humanity of the situation and present an honorable and distinguished front when relaying this information to subordinates and those soon to be fired. In this example, nearly 20% of the staff will be informed of their termination at this meeting. To accomplish this meeting in the best way possible it is wise to understand the entirety of the situation.

In any meeting it is important to build rapport with the audience and seek to communicate at their current level of emotional and intellectual understanding. In this case, the situation will no doubt be awkward and many emotions may be running high due to this stress. It is of the utmost importance and highest priority to uphold the dignity of those being fired and demonstrate care and respect. Bad feelings are sure to come about, so it is important,…...

Healthcare Workers: Personality Type and InformaticsOne of the greatest challenges of ensuring healthcare workers are educated in informatics is the likely clash of different personality types needed in both disciplines of health and IT. Healthcare workers are ultimately concerned with helping others. Informatics, on the other hand, is a technological discipline, interested in classifying, retrieving, and storing information. Information processing is the essence of informatics, and an effective database can be very useful in terms of facilitating accurate, safe care (Baker, et al., 2016). These two personality types are likely to be quite different according to standard personality measures such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Terry, 2020). Understanding how the information might be used by a healthcare professional can thus be very useful, but the types of satisfaction offered by the IT profession is not necessarily the hands-on satisfaction offered by working directly in healthcare itself.Healthcare informatics thus requires…...

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Baker, E., Fond, M., Hale, P. & Cook, J. (2016). What is “informatics”? Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 22 (4): 420-423

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Terry L. (2020). Understanding and applying personality types in healthcare communication. Nursing Standard, 35(7), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2020.e11509

Therapist differences in a randomised trial of the outcome of cognitive behaviour therapy for health anxiety in medical patients." It was authored by Tyrer et al. and appeared in the International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2015.
Did the trial address a clearly focused issue?

After thoroughly anatomizing this article it is clear that the trial described within it certainly did address a clearly focused issue. Specifically, the authors were looking to determine which group of healthcare practitioners was best suited to assist patients with health anxiety through the usage of cognitive behavior therapy. In particular, the authors were looking to discern whether or not nurses nurses could demonstrate a greater efficacy for this task than other groups of medical practitioners. Therefore, the authors utilized original research in the form of a randomized clinical trial to see if nurses could prove they had such effectiveness with this particular issue: that of…...

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Tyrer, H., Tyrer, P. Lisseman-Stones, Y., Mcallister, S., Cooper, S., Salkovskis, P., Crawford, M., Dupont, S., Green, J., Murphy, D., Wang, D., 2015. Therapist Differences in a Randomised Trial of the Outcome of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Health Anxiety in Medical Patients. International Journal of Nursing Studies, volume 52: pp.688-694.

The penalties for being out of compliance when OSHA comes knocking should be enough to motivate any healthcare facility to devise a plan to make sure that they are in compliance with OSHA's regulations. The startling thing is that it took an initiative like NEP to wake these facilities up and get them thinking about being compliant. Since they deal with people and their well being on an everyday basis, these are things that they should have been doing all along and not just because there is an increased probability of getting into trouble by OSHA.

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Healthcare workers. (2012). etrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/healthcare/

New OSHA inspection initiative focuses on healthcare. (2011). etrieved from http://www.puresafety.com/public/workingwell/?p=1209#.UAa4aFJ6EM

Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") Targets Nursing and esidential

Care Facilities. (2012). etrieved from http://www.hancocklaw.com/p/OSHA_Newsletter_212_May_H1768037.PDF

Prepare Your Facility for the National Emphasis Program (NEP). (2012).…...

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New OSHA inspection initiative focuses on healthcare. (2011). Retrieved from  http://www.puresafety.com/public/workingwell/?p=1209#.UAa4aFJ6REM 

Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") Targets Nursing and Residential

ecause unions retain the exclusive right to negotiate on behalf of its members, the individual worker may have little recourse to easily address incompetent leadership.
The Disadvantages of Unionized Labor for Healthcare Employers:

The primary disadvantages of unionized labor for healthcare employers correspond to the relative loss of control over issues and workplace elements commonly transferred to workers (through their unions), which accounts for the traditional resistance with which many employers responded to unionization attempts. On the one hand, unionized workforces are able to secure better pay and benefits from employers than would have been available to workers without union representation; likewise, employers must cede control over many aspects of operational and personnel decisions traditionally within administrative control.

On the other hand, particularly in light of the beneficial effect that unionized nursing has had on the quality of patient care and reduction in patient mortality, it is difficult to conceive of unionization…...

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Healthcare
Hispanic Community and Healthcare

This paper is an examination of how the Hispanic community experiences healthcare. The data from a number of articles related to the subject form the basis for the conclusions reached in the analysis.

One study looked at whether Hispanic-specific training should be included for healthcare worker training. It was found that there is a serious lack of training that is currently implemented regardless the community examined. Healthcare workers were unaware of social conventions that were normal among their Hispanic clients which limited the effectiveness of the healthcare treatment given. Because women were unable to discuss personal problems with male healthcare workers and males had similar issues with females, it was difficult for the various agencies to be truly effective. The recommendation, of course, was to include a training curriculum that included cultural training.

Another issue that Hispanic individuals faced is that they were underrepresented in hospice arrangements. The initial…...

Healthcare Challenges
Technology is one of the main drivers of change in healthcare, and it is up to healthcare organizations to join the rest of the world in adopting new technologies to run their industry better. In most industries, something like electronic record keeping has been done for decades and nobody was wringing their hands about it. It is absurd that this is even an issue for healthcare companies. The best thing is to stop talking about this as if it is an "issue" or a "challenge," and just get it done. If you were to design the health care system from scratch, of course everything would be electronic. The development and adoption of these technologies will improve the quality of healthcare immensely, so the only real question is not how will this challenge affect healthcare, but how quickly can healthcare get its act together and join the 21st century. In…...

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Healthcare Case Study Schuylkill County, PA
County Overview - Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is located in the heart of the anthracite Coal region of Pennsylvania where the Schuylkill iver originates. Pottsville is the county seat, and the county showed a population of just under 150,000 as of 2010 with a density of 190 persons per square mile. The total area of the county is 782 square miles, almost all land, less than 1/2 a per cent water. The county's history, likely due to large coal deposits, focused on the railroad and industrialization (Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce, 2011).

The county experienced the high point of its population during the 1920s and 1930s, and has been losing people ever since, most between 1950 and 1970, with about a 1-2% population loss since the turn of the century. This is likely due to the lack of appropriate jobs and opportunities within the county. Schuylkill County is…...

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Health Staff
the Allied health care staffing agency is a staffing agency that focuses on the niche of the nursing jobs within the healthcare industry in Chicago

The Allied healthcare staffing agency works to recruit registered nurses belonging to all medical Specialties, Practical Nurses that are licensed also called LPNs, Nursing Assistants that are certified also called CNAs and Specialists from the allied health sciences. These professionals would be hired both from the area of the metro city as well as the suburbs and placed within the hospitals, the neighborhood medical centers, Adult care facilities, clinics, and rehabilitation centers.

The mission of the Allied Healthcare Staffing Agency is to provide the best opportunities of employment both to its collaborators which are the local healthcare organizations as well as serving the entire nursing community to provide amply amount of job opportunities to choose from in a time when the turnover of medical professionals is…...

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Healthcare Quality Management
PDCA Modeling in Healthcare

Psychiatric emergencies in medical settings may be particularly challenging since the staff does not encounter them frequently and may not have experience dealing with behavioral crisis intervention. The purpose of this exercise is to help staff improve understanding and coping with nonmedical emergencies that occur in medical settings using the PDCA cycle.

X is a 41-year-old male admitted to a medical unit with a diagnosis of possible stroke. The patient is ambulatory, 5'10," and 350 lbs. Mr. X presented to the emergency department the day before after apparently losing consciousness at home. The initial CAT scan of his head was negative. It is suspected that Mr. X may be an IV drug user since his urine toxicology screening came back positive for opiates. The medical staff thinks that Mr. X had a seizure prior to admission, but he has shown no abnormal signs or symptoms within…...

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Pestka, E., Hatterberg, D., Larson, L., Zwygart, L., Cox, A., & Cox, D. (2012). Enhancing Safety in Behavioral Emergency Situations. Medsurg Nursing, 335-341.

One of the most frustrating aspects about the gun violence debate, which is primarily an American debate due to the fact that the United States experiences far greater amounts of gun violence than most other industrialized nations, is that there has been a lack of research into this topic.  The lack of research is not accidental; Congress intentionally froze funding for research into gun violence over 25 years ago, and even enacted prohibitions against doctors and other healthcare workers providing some detailed insights into gun violence.  As a result, when researchers wanted....

Counseling people who have AIDS or are at high risk for acquiring HIV can present several ethical issues for healthcare providers.  While client care must remain the priority in any counseling relationship, it is important to acknowledge that a client who has AIDS, is HIV+, or is at high risk of acquiring HIV may present a health risk to their current or future sexual partners.  In addition, other high-risk behaviors, such as needle-sharing, present a community risk. 

The first step in writing an essay on this topic is recognizing the various ethical issues....

1. The Evolution and Challenges of Healthcare in 2020

2. Innovative Technologies Shaping Healthcare in 2021

3. The Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Systems in 2020

4. Addressing Health Disparities in 2021: A Call for Action

5. Telemedicine: The Future of Healthcare Delivery in 2020 and Beyond

6. Mental Health Awareness in the Era of Healthcare 2021

7. From Crisis to Opportunity: Resilience in Healthcare in 2020

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The mental health implications of COVID-19 on healthcare workers are significant and multifaceted. The pandemic has placed immense pressure and stress on healthcare workers as they face increased workloads, long hours, high levels of uncertainty, and the risk of exposure to the virus.

Some of the key mental health implications include:
1. Increased levels of anxiety, fear, and distress due to the constant exposure to COVID-19 and the feelings of vulnerability.
2. Burnout and exhaustion from working long shifts, dealing with high patient volumes, and witnessing the suffering and death of patients.
3. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from experiencing traumatic events and....