When law enforcement officers experience fatigue. It’s like a disaster waiting to happen working long hours,double shifts, or taking on a second job can be hurtful. Police officers that work long hours are more likely to experience physical exertion, emotional stress, and it can trigger serious
Life changes are events in a person’s life that require a significant readjustment in various aspects of a person’s life these can be things like divorce or marriage. Holmes & Rahe are two doctors; they noticed that in many of their patients had experienced some form of stress before they became physically ill. They predicted that life events could lead to illness; to test this they developed the SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale) to measure a person’s level of stress and whether it correlated with physical illness. This questionnaire was based on 43 life event taken from 5000 patient records. In order to establish the stressfulness of each event they enlisted the help of 400 participant and they were asked to score each of the 43 life events with a numerical figure of how much readjustment would be needed, taking marriage as an arbitrary baseline value of 50.
When your body goes through changes like that constantly your body has to try and adjust to it. These changes can cause a high level of stress. Working within the criminal justice system can cause stress. Administrative issues, paperwork and internal investigations can all cause stress while working in a police department. The stress that they go through can also result in fatigue.
suggested that in the civil services, high-grade employees would experience high work load, whereas low-grade employees would experience low job control. Therefore, both grades are likely to experience high levels of stress for two different reasons. A total of 7372 civil servant working in London agreed to answer a questionnaire on workload, job control and amount of social support, and to be checked for signs of cardio vascular disease. The researchers also obtained an independent assessment of workload and control by checking job specification and role responsibility with personnel management. Five years later participants were re-assessed.
The term professional burnout is described as “physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that results from long-term involvement in work situations that are emotionally demanding” (Wlodarczyk, & Lazarewicz, 2011 p.848), highlighting how the work place environment is directly affecting an individual’s health and well-being. When trying to connect the concepts of stress and professional burnout, studies indicted a high level of prolonged stress leads into professional burnout (Gandi & Dagona, 2011). Professional burnout in nursing has been published in multiple professional journals including; research, ethics, nursing management, as well as other
When I come into work sometimes a lot of stuff is missing or not put away in the right place or just not cleaned properly that is something I would like to change. 2. How do you presently respond (i.e. what do you think, feel, and do in that situation)? When I give myself too much work to do and not slow down I end up stressing myself out because it is hard to finish the task by a certain time cause of having so many jobs going on at the one time.
For example, patients with a chronic illness who have less than a high school education are 3 times more likely to report being in poor health than those with the same illness who hold a college degree. Given the increasing number of vulnerable populations with 1 or more chronic health conditions, policymakers are becoming increasingly concerned about how to deal with the demands this population places on systems of care (ajmc.com)”. According to the World Health Organization, chronic diseases are diseases of extensive periods and usually slow development. “Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, are by
257 men in their study died from heart attacks - 70% of those who died had been judged as having 'type A' personalities. Critics have argued that it is very difficult to decide if someone has a 'type A' personality or not. They also say that the connection between personality and heart disease is weak, maintaining that negative emotions such as anger and frustration are more linked to stress-related illness than 'workaholic' lifestyles. These emotions may not be fixed aspects of someone's personality. In the late 1970's, Kobasa came up with a theory of why some people suffer stress more easily than others, suggesting that some people are 'hardy personality types'.
Bereavement is a very distressing experience for most people that causes a considerable amount of upset and disruption of everyday life. In a large scale international study, it was noted that cognitive and somatic symptoms were alike across diverse cultures. Some of
Fall Risks and Prevention Strategies Fall Risks and Prevention Strategies Falls are a problem for most of the elderly population in the home, acute care setting, and long term care setting. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC;2013), there is one out of three people over the age of 65 who have fallen and suffered serious injuries and even death. This has become a problem for patients, families, and healthcare facilities that can be prevented through education and awareness of surroundings. Falls can be devastating to patients due to increased hospital stay and decreased mobility. The purpose of this paper is to discuss data associated with falls, and identify risks and prevention strategies.