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Lily Hall

Eng 1201 Online

Professor Stalbird

12 March 2019

Online Casebook

My research essay topic is “Do patients have a major impact in nurses’ wellbeing?”. The

topic is interesting to me in many ways as I plan to be a nurse and was interested in how it can

affect their mental states whether positively or negatively. As nurses’ jobs are to focus on the

patients well beings, I felt that it may be overlooked by other employees and even the person

themselves how their jobs and the people they interact with on a daily basis can change who they

are as a person, or their overall thinking and mood. As I dug deeper into the topic I found many

different accounts of how it can effect them and even the types of nurses who tend to share and

experience the most abuse from patients to those who have never really experienced any rude

patients at all in the many years they have been one. No matter the difference, we will see how

patients affect a nurse’s wellbeing and in what way they are able too.

Association, American Nurses. YouTube, YouTube, 1 Nov. 2017,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utc1jm6sdcA.

This video discusses how nurses in healthcare are needed in the process of healing their

patients and the effect on their lives as well as how they take care of themselves in the future as

well. But while they are so focused on taking care of their patients, they tend to forget that only

they can take care of themselves. While it seems off-topic, I feel that a way to try to calm down
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and reduce these anxieties at work, the video shows a good representation of the effect of

movement of healthcare professionals can keep them on a good path and try to curve mental

health declines and try to discuss the importance of taking care of themselves so they can

continue to help others.

Galperin, Bella. “Occupational Mental Health: a Study of Work-Related Depression among

Nurses in the Caribbean.” International Journal of Nursing Studies, Pergamon, 19 Aug.

1999, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020748999000024.

In this part of the International Journal of Nursing Studies, they discuss mental health

among nurses in the Caribbean. I found this part of the book important as I felt I should show

that it is across a wide range of people from many different places can still experience the same

strain from work in the healthcare field, no matter the differences in places or settings. I also felt

that it was reliable due to the fact it is from an international nursing book.

Haas, Scott. “Mental Illness Among Nurses.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 29

Mar. 2015, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shrink-in-the-kitchen/201503/mental-

illness-among-nurses.

Scott Haas wrote a paper called “Mental Illness Among Nurses”, in the paper he

highlights many key details which could drain people physically and emotionally. They have to

deal with all the demand of patients, challenge working with a team, and can have lack of

training which could put them in vulnerable scenarios. These can lead down a bad path of

substance abuse or inappropriate work behavior. This article was also written by a psychologist

which strengthens the credibility and also has a lot of information that discusses my topic.
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“Mental Health Wellness.” The Practice Doctorate in Nursing: An Idea Whose Time Has

Come, www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/hnhn/2017-year-of-the-healthy-

nurse/mental-health-wellness/.

In this article by the American Nurses Association, they discuss how while caregivers do

have a stressful job they say that it is a priority to take care of themselves first before taking care

of others. They offer movement as a way to try to avoid getting depression, increase cognitive

awareness, and also can give nurses time away from their patients to regroup and calm down for

a while. They say a short walk or ten minute stress can even improve mood, focus, and overall

mental wellness.

Olatunde, Emmanuel. “Http://Ljournal.ru/Wp-Content/Uploads/2017/03/a-2017-023.Pdf.” Job

Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being among Mental Health Nurses, 14 Sept. 2015,

doi:10.18411/a-2017-023.

In this paper, they discuss job satisfaction regarding mental health nurses. They discuss

how the nurses feel happy in their job as they feel they are doing something good for the world

and discuss that nurses with a high job satisfaction will most likely have higher marriage

satisfaction and less psychological issues. I thought this paper was very important to add in as

most nurses’ experience of mental health and nursing on the internet was quite negative so I

thought showing that some nurses enjoy their job and makes them feel complete making patients

happy and get better was needed.

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Tajvar, Abdolhamod. Occupational Stress and Mental Health among Nurses in a

Medical Intensive Care Unit of a General Hospital in Bandar Abbas in 2013. Electron

Physician, 20 July 2015, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574696/.

In this study it shows the results from a large group of nurses from a hospital who were

examined to see if they had occupational stress, no doubt a majority did. They then tried to link it

to mental health states and see what the constant stress of work has caused to the nurses. I really

like this website as it is trustworthy and this study in particular is very relevant to my topic,

shows all the data and percentages, and seperates all the data and steps to better understand and

follow the study.

Vasconcelos, Selene C. Nursing Staff Members Mental Health and Factors Associated

with the Work Process: An Integrative Review. Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health, 23

Dec. 2016, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278561/.

In this study, they also focused on the relationship between occupational stress and

mental health but rather from a sample space, they looked at it as a whole. They discuss less of

the statistics and rather the outcome from not acknowledging or treating the burnout, depression,

etc. They then show multiple different studies and what happened to the nurses’ mental states

and attitudes from the different patients. This was also from a very trustworthy source, which is

why I pulled two of my citations from this website and well as the very thoroughness of it all,

and the perfect organization of all the data.

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