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Stress management

Bingi RajeswariM.Sc Nursing

NIMHANS

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Definition

• A state of affair which can disturb the normal physiological and psychological functioning of an individual.

- Oxford dictionary.

• Arousal of mind and body in response to demands made upon them.

- Schafer 2000

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IMPORTANCEThe Importance of Stress Management for Nurses• The health care industry is a stressful place to work.

Nurses in particular face these stresses head on, since they are often responsible for the day-to-day care of patients and the families of patients.

• The hours in nursing can be long, and the work can be

physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting. It is no wonder that nurses rank high among stressed-out employees.

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Causes of stress at workplaceGeneral Causes Of Stress At Work:

• Inadequate staffing.

• Long and/or unsociable hours • Poor pay • Poor promotion prospects

• Unnecessary procedures • Uncertainty and insecurity

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Specific Causes of Stress at Work

1.Lack of role clarity

2.Unrealistically high self-expectations

3. Inability to influence 4. Lack of decision making 5. Poor communication

6. Inadequate leadership

7.Conflicts with colleagues

8. Inability to finish a job 9. Fighting unnecessary

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VARIOUS STRESSORS7 Major Nurse Related Stressors • Dealing with death and dying • Criticism by physicians• Dealing with emotional needs of patients and

their families• Lack of staff support • Workload • Uncertainty of treatment plans • Conflict with colleagues (Cox, Cox, and Griffiths,

1996)

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Job Demands Workload Shift work

Limited worker control Technology

Client demographics(age, culture)

Organizational Factors Role demands

Management style Career security

Interpersonal relationsChange

Physical

Environment Space, noise, heat, cold, lighting, etc.

Personality traitsMotivation

TalentTraining

Job stressors

FinancesFamilytrauma

Non-work stressors

Social supportCoping skills

Hardiness

Bufferfactors

Reactions:

Physical

Psychological

Behavioral

Acutestress

Stress-relatedIllness:

Heart diseaseDepressionInfections

Individual factors

Chronicstress

Healthyworker

OR

Job stress & health

Adapted from NIOSH Publ. 87-111; Vachon & Pakes; Maddi& Khoshaba

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Work factors by occupation• Nursing:

– 17% fewer RNs in acute care hospitals in 2005 than 2000 (Reineck & Furino)

– Workload: pts. old, ill, obese. Paperwork, language. (Reineck & Furino) – Each added pt/nurse 23% higher risk of burnout & 7% higher pt.

mortality. (Aiken 2002)– Inadequate/inexperienced staff & inadequate staff budget, agency RNs – Shift work (nights), overtime, & pressure to reduce “time on clock”– 12-hour vs. 8- or 10-hour shifts. Float/prn responsibilities– Fast pace not meeting pt needs or own expectations, fear of errors– Leadership/management style. – Professional/mgt/pt/family conflict– Lack of input in care, including moral distress/conflict– “Fishbowl” environment in ICU settings– Proximity to death and dying pts– Threatening/difficult/demanding pts (especially psych)– Lack of advancement options

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Worker factors in stress

• Personal traits– Age, partner/family status, race/ethnic, economic– Personality– Motivation

• Gain knowledge, use technical skills, help or work with people• “Need to be needed” to boost self-esteem is a risk for work overload and CF

• Talents & training– Innate abilities that are advantageous in job– Occupational training– Experience

• Non-work stressors– Current personal stressors– Previous personal or job trauma or crisis

• Buffer factors– Hardiness – Coping style– Social support

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workplace stress

Job Demands (General) Workload Shift work Limited worker control TechnologyClient demographics(age, culture)Organizational Factors Role demands Management style Career security Interpersonal relations Change Physical Environment Space, noise, heat, cold, lighting

Health care (Specific) Work overload, paperworkShortage of staffShifts/schedule issues, overtimeLack of controlPatients older, sicker, and heavierManagement style, cultureLack of supervisor & peer supportWork not valued, low salaryLack of advancement optionsFear of errorsConflict with coworkers, pts., staffMoral dilemmas, death, dyingRisk of violence at workWork environment in disaster response“Fishbowl” in ICUIsolation (lab, dietician, SW, rural)

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Coping with stress

• Managing stress is all about taking charge of

• your thoughts,• your emotions,• your schedule,• your environment, &• The way you deal

with problems.

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steps to master stress

1. Claim it: everyone has stress.2. Name it: everyone’s stressors are

different. (TWERPS)3. Reframe it: Look at your stress &

stressors in a different way. Hardiness, coping.

4. Tame it: prepare, self-care, share, dare, be aware

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1. Claim it

• Stress: present in all organisms– Nonspecific response to any demand placed on the organism– Impulse pushes us out of balance or equilibrium

• Stressors: factors that provoke stress response• Stress responses

– Acute Fight-or-Flight Chronic stress.• Healthy stress (Eustress)- adaptive

– Motivates growth & learning.• Unhealthy stress (Distress):- maladaptive

– Can result from “impossible” demands. Biopsychosocial effects• Job stress:

– “Harmful … responses that occur when requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources or needs of the worker.’’NIOSH

– 10% of total occupational disease claims are due to stress. Marine et al 2007

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2. Name it: Your stressors: “TWERPS”

• Tasks, Time• Worries• Environment, Expectations, Events• Roles, Responsibilities• People (yourself, others, communication)• Situations: all of the above put together

– How much is in your control?– How much is from outside circumstances?

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Effects of prolong stressTransition from eustress to distress

What happens to us when we experience

intense stress over a prolonged period of

time?

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Burnout

Compassion Fatigue

Compassion Crisis

Maladaptive stress response

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BurnoutM Meaning: Burnout is a progressive condition

characterized by physical and emotional exhaustion involving the development of negative job attitudes and a loss of concern and a feeling for those with whom one works.

Causes: Result of stress at both the individual level and

the organizational level. stress associated with marital problems,financial

strains or social pressure can influence and compound job-related stress.

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Symptoms:

1.Change in attitude(Stress is causing faulty perceptions- not the worker’s inherent nature).

2. Emotional exhaustion(easy fatigability).3. Changes in self-image (one feels

ineffective and inadequate, job satisfaction declines).

4. Education inflexibility(less tolerance for ambievity,less reliance on personal decision making)

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• Burnout managers begin to promote job security and resist innovation by subordinates.

• They will either work harder but feel progressively less capable or will shorten job-related activities, but will not succeed in recharging .

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• Example: A nurse has worked 18-hour shifts for four days straight. She is exhausted and yearns to spend time with her family. She begins to dislike her job shortcuts because she doesn't feel as though she should put much more effort into her work since she's already done so much. A patient of hers needs hourly checkups to ensure fluid levels are adequate. Since she has been so preoccupied with her disgust for having to work such long hours, she forgets to check on her patient. All of sudden, there is a code called on her patient and he is rushed to emergency care due to her negligence.

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Name it: Compassion Fatigue Meaning:• Compassion Fatigue has been described as the

“cost of caring" for others in emotional and physical pain. (Figley, 1982)

It is characterized by• deep physical and emotional exhaustion and a pronounced change in the helper’s ability

to feel empathy for their patients, their loved ones and their co-workers

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Compassion fatigue model

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• Compassion Fatigue can lead to very serious problems such as

depression, anxiety and ssuicidal thoughts.

• Strategies and solutions;• There are strategies and solutions both at

the organizational & personal levels. Organizational Strategies

• First, by openly discussing and recognizing compassion fatigue in the workplace, helpers can normalise this problem for one another.

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• They can also work towards developing a supportive work environment that will encourage proper debriefing, regular breaks, mental health days, peer support, assessing and changing workloads, improved access to further professional development and regular check-in times where staff can safely discuss the impact of the work on their personal and professional lives.

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• Research has shown that working part time, or only seeing clients or patients part time and doing other activities the rest of the workday can be a very effective method to prevent compassion fatigue.

Personal:• Improved self-care is the cornerstone of

compassion fatigue prevention. taking extra time out of their busy schedules to exercise, meditate or have a massage. On the personal front,

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Danger!Compassion Crisis

• It is a crisis when you experience or practice:– Repeated errors and omissions– Drug or alcohol abuse– Numb, robotic functioning– Feeling suicidal, useless– Abusing patients– Blaming & criticizing other team members– High absenteeism – Tardiness

• Compassion Fatigue/Burnout are contagious to coworkers, family.• It is not a sign of failure to realize you need a break, or a change!• Consider transition to less stressful situation that uses your talents• Treatment

– CBT more effective than relaxation or multimodal intervention in stress reduction for all occupations (including non-health care) -van der Klink et al, 2001

– CF/PTSD: trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure--memory/site, stress management, EMDR. Debriefing controversial, may harm.

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Maladaptive stress response(Vachon & Pakes, 1984)

• Physical: fatigue, headache, insomnia, abdominal pain, diffuse aches, frequent viral illness, increased sick days, weight and appetite change, lack of exercise.

• Psychological: depression, frustration, denial, anxiety, conflict-laden dreams, over-identification with patients, anger, projecting blame onto others, awareness of own vulnerability, substance abuse, feeling robotic (unable to feel anything), unresolved grief for patients

• Social: Bringing job stress home, changed libido, fear of pregnancy, fear for family member’s health, no time for friends or no friends outside work, conflict between job and personal life.

• Occupational: Unrealistic expectations (science can cure everything, humans can be perfect), more & more time at work, feeling overwhelmed by job, inability to detach from job, overinvolvement with clients outside work, cynicism (insults, morbid jokes, dehumanizing attitude), role ambiguity (trouble defining one's duties and area of responsibility), decreased job satisfaction, role reversal with clients (they become your therapist).

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3. Reframe it: HardinessA “personal protective factor”

• Commitment: strive to stay involved – Engagement with job, effort to stay involved, even when times

are rough– Worker believes work deserves full attention & effort.

• Control: strive to influence outcomes– Worker perceives high degree of control in work role– Exerts influence thru imagination, knowledge, skill, choice. – We can’t control what happens; we can control how we respond.

• Challenge: view as opportunity, not obstacle– Change is the rule, not the exception– React with openness, flexibility, innovation

• Transform and grow in response to change• Don’t seek to preserve & protect the status quo

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Reframe it: HardinessA “personal protective factor”

• Transformational coping:– Put changes in perspective– Realize you’re not facing change alone– Learn what change means for you: worst/best case– How can I take advantage of change?

• Learn from past success & failure• Plan how to make best-case scenario happen

• Social support—Maddi & Khoshaba– Work with others, don’t alienate them– Work toward constructive win-win solutions– Believe that problems can strengthen relationships– No matter what happens, don’t burn bridges.

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Reframe it: Effective Coping Strategies

• Brief COPE– Active coping– Planning– Positive reframing– Acceptance– Religion– Using emotional support– Using instrumental support– Self-distraction– Denial– Venting– Behavioral Disengagement– Self-blame– Humor (avoid ridicule, self-defeating)Blue: positive, Yellow negativeTan neutral

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Reframe it: a new view

• Adopt a Hardy perspective – Commonplace: Others have experienced same stressors.– Manageability: The present is between the worst & best that

could happen– Improvability: Think how YOU can improve situation.– Time: Estimate when stress will ease (e.g. short-term deadline

stress)– Unpredictability: Do what you can, the rest is out of your hands.

• Attitude: Turn lemons into lemonade; “Attitude of Gratitude”– Cognitive behavioral therapy works to change thoughts, which

in turn changes feelings & behaviors. Accentuate positive, reduce negative.

– Live in the present moment (Mindfulness)– Adjust expectations. – Serenity prayer: change what you can, accept what you can’t. – Humor: shifts perspective to less threatening. ? Mixed effects in

coping with health care stress.

Think

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4. Tame it: TWERPs revisited

• Tasks: Do, Delegate, or Drop. • Time: Manage it & schedules.

– Budget sleep and personal time!• Worries: Change what you can, Accept what you

can’t, Know the difference.• Environment: Advocate positive change.• Events: Discuss critical incidents; Counseling.• Expectations: Change unrealistic to realistic. • Roles: Control responsibilities, Delegate tasks.• People: Assertiveness, Communication (with

management & colleagues)

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Tame it:Prepare, Self-care

• Prepare for the expected and the unexpected.• Self-care: “Balance PIES”

– Balance: Clear line between work and “life.” Set limits!• Work:

– Improve protocols, build teams & communicate. – Maintain & upgrade skills. – Network with others, followup with clients at home.

• Life:– Make time (prioritize) for friends, family, hobbies. – Relax, see nature, vacations, mental health days.– Limit off-work time with clients.

– Physical: Diet, exercise, sleep, preventive care– Intellectual: Advanced education, change or add roles – Emotional: Self-acceptance. Counseling, meds as needed

(anxiety/depression). Positive outlook, ? humor.– Spiritual: Morals, ethics, values, beliefs/religion, relax, meditate.

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Tame it:Dare, Share, Be Aware

• Dare to Dream, Decide, & Act– Meet with colleagues, research options– Approach management with suggestions

• Share burdens with others– Social support, support groups F2F & online,

professional help • Be aware

– Journaling helpful in coping with stress– Ask others for feedback – Monitor progress in personal wellness– Stages of change model

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Tame it: Self-careAlternative individual strategies

& effectiveness • Music (A)—patient’s preference• Aromatherapy (lavender) (B)

– Essential oils in massage or in oil burner (check natural health/New Age shops)

• Yoga in healthy people (B)• Relaxation techniques (B to C) many types

– Autogenic training, breath therapy, guided relaxation, muscle relaxation techniques, Qi gong, self-hypnosis, visualization, biofeedback.

• Massage, meditation, acupuncture, acupressure, guided imagery, therapeutic touch, other methods (C)

A= strong, B= good, C= unclear evidence

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Tame it: Relaxation(Natural Standard, 2007)

• Goal: non-directed relaxation. 1) repetitive focus (on word, sound, prayer phrase, sensation, or muscular activity), 2) passive attitude towards intruding thoughts, and 3) return to the focus.

• Deep methods: autogenic, progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), meditation ("thoughtless awareness," differs from relaxation). – Progressive relaxation: client taught how to relax by comparing

relaxation with muscle tension. After months of practice, may evoke relaxation response within seconds.

• Brief methods: self-control relaxation, paced respiration, and deep breathing. Require less time, often a short form of a deep method.

• Applied relaxation: imagining relaxing situations, to induce muscular and mental relaxation.

• Other techniques: guided imagery, deep breathing/breathing control, passive muscle relaxation, refocusing.

• Instruction in hospitals, communities, books, audio/video, online

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Tame it: Biofeedback

• Biofeedback amplifies small physiological signals (i.e. muscle tension, brain waves) and displays them to client in real time. 

• Client uses this information to learn to consciously change “subconscious” physiological functions (heartbeat, muscle tension, brain wave activity). (aapb.org)

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Tame it: Types of biofeedback

• EMG (forehead, upper back, other): For muscle tension backache or headache, neck pain, bruxism (grinding teeth).

• Temperature (sensor on finger): For Raynaud’s, migraine.

• Galvanic skin response (sweat): stress. • EEG (brainwave or neurofeedback). Attention

deficit, anxiety. • Heart rate variability: the more variability, the

better. IBS, asthma, non-cardiac chest pain.

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Tame it: Biofeedback in action

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• Efficacious (Fourth level evidence):– Anxiety – Attention Deficit Disorder – Headache- Adult – Hypertension – Temporomandibular Disorders

• Probably efficacious (Third level evidence):– Alcoholism/Substance Abuse – Arthritis – Chronic Pain – Insomnia

• Source: aapb.org quotation from Yucha C. & Gilbert C. (2004). Evidence-Based Practice in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback.

• More info: aapb.org, bcia.org.

Tame it: Biofeedback efficacy instress-related disorders

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Tame it: Share Therapy, e-therapy

• Traditional counseling– Cognitive behavioral therapy– CBT/exposure/EMDR for traumatic stress

• “Coaching” -- personal or professional• E-therapy Barak et al.:

– Online therapy, via email, website programs etc. can be as effective as traditional therapy for anxiety & stress. No studies cited specific to work stress.

– http://www.metanoia.org/imhs/ How to find a therapist online, cautions etc. Older info.

– Ismho.org, onlineclinics.com

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Tame it: Share Face-to-Face (F2F) & Online Groups

Present in F2F & online:• Sense of community• Empathy• Information & advice exchange• Self-disclosure• Shared experiences• Catharsis• Learning from peers and

mentors• Helper role• Advocacy

Unique online:• Anonymity:

– Filters nonverbal cues– Hides disturbing

personal characteristics– Encourages prompt

intimacy/deception• Writing is therapeutic• Lurkers: 75-95% of

members lurk, yet learn & identify with group

• Response is delayed (except in chats)

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Tame it: Share Benefits & Risks of Online Groups

• Convenient access• Decreased isolation• Increased perceived social

support• Easier discussion of sensitive

& controversial topics (sexuality, ethics, atypical lifestyle, suicide, end of life)

• Practical help received• Ability to help others

• Misinformation• Delayed treatment• Alternative medicine focus• “Meeting” severely affected peers • Strong emotions, arguments• Privacy/Identity Concerns• Stalking• Deception

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Healthy systems Team problems,Team solutions

“ …similar to shipmates preparing for a storm. Just as shipmates understand that the ship must be made with solid materials and fortified with necessary provisions, so does the NICU crew rely on structure, interdependent relationships, harmony and leadership in their preparation.”Reddick, Catlin & Jellinek, Crisis within Crisis: Recommendations for Defining, Preventing, and Coping with Stressors in the NICU, J. Clinical Ethics, Fall 2001.

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What do healthy systems look like?

• Structure: High level of function and effectiveness.– Multidisciplinary team

• Mutual respect, cross-training, awareness of others’ roles.– Flexible schedules, with staff input. – Adequate staffing with independent, empowered staff. – Education, training & development: for tasks, leadership, & coping with stress

• Relationships: Communication– All team members feel valued: Everyone’s opinions count. – Communication flows both ways: workers to administration.– Discussions after deaths, adverse outcomes, difficult clients

• Critical incident debriefing controversial for emergency workers– Outside the hospital

• Reunions, classes, support groups• Contact with community resources (visiting nurse, home health, hospice, community pharmacists)

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What do healthy systems look like?

• Harmony:– Workers have input into decisions, workload, work flow. – Error response seeks system improvement, not scapegoat

• Leadership: – Management listens and responds to employees, – Management encourages risk-taking, trying new processes.– Policies don’t “handcuff” employees to protocols, & allow

independent, innovative action.– Mentoring– Employee assistance programs (not enough by itself) – Consultants, organizational changes – Psychological training on attitude, communication & job stress

relieve stress. (Marine et al. 2007)– Support and advice given by nurse managers or quality care

coordinators decrease Depersonalization on Burnout Inventory. (Marine et al. 2007)

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Healthy systems:Harmony in tough times

• Discussions for deaths, errors, stressful cases, moral dilemmas– Team case review (doctors & others)

• Focus on learning and improvement • Kudos for good care

– Informal and formal discussions with peers– Sharing memories & feelings with families

• Verbal and written: discharge, death, later• Tears & appropriate touch can be professional

– Attend funerals for client death

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Healthy systems:Forgiveness

“ Perhaps the single most useful piece of knowledge …is…that more is unknown than can ever be known. ...A part of wisdom … is…that ignorance should be accepted and forgiven…The forgiveness of families, colleagues, and--most of all--ourselves becomes the cushion against crises and the guiding spirit to coping in a sea of chaos.” Reddick, Catlin & Jellinek, Crisis within Crisis: Recommendations for Defining, Preventing, and Coping with Stressors in the NICU, J. Clinical Ethics, Fall 2001.