Week 7 Responses- Agavni Asatryan
NURS 601A FNP BRIDGE COURSE
Response to Holly Zarnowiec
Hello Holly, I agree with you in your discussion that conflict arises when nurses find it fatiguing and time-consuming attempting to take care of the patient medically all the time while again taking the appropriate amount of time to provide care for the family as well. Taking care of the family includes informing the family of patient changes, medical treatments, and so forth in a way that the family can understand. Some nurses may find such activities as tedious and consequently avoid some families or limit their presence to the families (Kaakinen et.al 2017). In other cases, there is an inadequate definition of the roles that nurses are expected to perform while they transition from one position to another, and this may also give rise to role ambiguity. One of the societal trends that have increased family caregiver stress and burden is the increased level of divorce and never-married statuses. When a family divorces, in most cases, the mother, who might have been the family caregiver, is left alone to take care of the children. The mother might be financially struggling, and therefore family caregiving becomes stress. As a result, the mother may develop both mental and health problems (Rovithis et.al. 2017).
References
Kaakinen, J. R., Coehlo, D. P., Steele, R., Tabacco, A., & Hanson, S. M. H. (2017). Family health care nursing: theory, practice, and research (5th ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
Rovithis, M., Linardakis, M., Rikos, N., Merkouris, A., Patiraki, E., & Philalithis, A. (2017). Role conflict and ambiguity among physicians and nurses in the public health care sector in Crete. Archives of Hellenic Medicine/Arheia Ellenikes Iatrikes, 34(5).
Response to Evan Pacleb
Hello Evan, I support you in your discussion that at often times, nurses have to carefully find the right interventions that suit the family’s needs. As a registered nurse, it is important that we help our clients with these issues but find interventions that are up to par with the current situation of the family. Sometimes when a patient is admitted to a hospital, family members play critical roles to the patient, and the nurse may be relieved of certain roles (Buckwalter, 2019). For instance, in the current time, when the world is faced with the Coronavirus pandemic. Whenever a patient is admitted to hospitals, there are no family members or any individual supposed to visit such a patient. The implication is that the nurse attending the patient has to assume all responsibilities, and this may result in role conflict. When a nurse transitions from one position to another, the roles that they are expected to perform may be complicated, and this may also cause stress. Amilin (2017), states that family caregivers have been ignored in every aspect of their lives; their health and quality of life have been assumed because the majority of them are excluded from treatment plans, and they are not offered any training, but they are expected to perform technical procedures, and they may end up developing stress and anxiety.
References
Amilin, A. (2017). The impact of role conflict and role ambiguity on accountants’ performance: The moderating effect of emotional quotient.
Buckwalter, K. C. (2019). Overview of psychosocial factors contributing to the stress of family caregivers. In Alzheimer’s Disease (pp. 305-312). CRC Press.