The Role of Emotional Support in Promoting Nurse Wellbeing in High-Stress Healthcare Environments
Posted: Sep 10, 2023
Abstract
The contemporary healthcare landscape presents nurses with unprecedented psychological challenges, characterized by escalating patient acuity, staffing shortages, and administrative pressures that collectively create environments of chronic stress. While extensive research has documented the prevalence of burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional exhaustion among nursing professionals, conventional interventions have largely emphasized individual resilience-building or organizational policy adjustments. This study introduces a paradigm shift by investigating emotional support not as a peripheral concern but as a central, systematically implementable component of nurse wellbeing infrastructure. The novelty of our approach lies in reconceptualizing emotional support from an informal, incidental aspect of workplace culture to a structured, measurable intervention with demonstrable impacts on psychological outcomes.
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