Authors
Ganga Sharma
Abstract
Health is one of the significant and important aspect in today’s life which signifies the wealth of the country. The serving of nurses is relevant and plays a major role in the hospital services as nurses are crucial partner of any health care system. The present paper study about the psychological aspects of nurses and their interrelationship between the patient and nurses and aimed at viewing the issues of stress management in a manner of enhancing the health of their nurses and altering their behavior of working. The paper also focused on the key sources on which nurse’s faces disturbance in hospital and health care institute and the importance of dealing with the psychology of nurses working and behavior covering the strategies and personal coping skills so as to represent as the support system. The study also cover the emotional balance between the patient and their relatives as they were in high in their stress and frustration. The paper also conclusively relate the psychological problems conquer by staff nurses both internal and external health care treatment and prevention for the sake of proper care. Keywords: Nurse, Interrelationship, Psychological Aspects, Stress Management
Introduction
Nursing is one of the occupation which is helpful in sharing a personal relationship with the patients. It is very important to understand the behavior of human and their mental process with the involvement of emotional reactions in the relation with physical illness. The psychology of nurses plays a very significant role in dealing with the patient caring and maintenance issue. It is well-known fact that the patient reach the hospital are already in a mode of major degree of stress which is being difficult to manage as it is more frightening, traumatic and offended. The role of the psychology in the practice and education nursing which became more important and rapid in the recent years and are being a cover all the nursing and healthcare practitioner studies (Upton, 2013).
The psychology word contain a great attention and death-dealing with the individual mindset and its related connections. People always used to consider and focus on the study of mind and mystery behind the human mental life and subjected as well to predicting the behaviors of people. The psychology term is derived from the psyche which means ‘soul’ and logos which means the ‘systematic and scientific study’. This study is focus on the evolution of the physiological ideas and the strong beliefs regarding the mindset of an individuals. Hence it simply define as the study of mind. It consist of the factors listed structuralism, functionalism and behaviorism which are completely define with the respect of the person psychological behavior and the way of action by them towards numerous different situations.
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