Question

Please follow the following instructions: health sci

750-word max outlining the following

• employment and working condition and why it is a social determinants of health

  o Define your employment and working conditions.Provide relevant statistic data

  o the topic employment and working conditions should be grounded in synthesized evidence

• Prevalence data

  o Why we should care about employment and working conditions. build the case

  o Should create a compelling case as to why working conditions and employment is a priority

• Discussion of the current solutions to employment and working conditions. Suggestions for

  future feasible solution

Answer 1

1. Define your employment and working conditions. Provide relevant statistic data

Nursing is the employment that has the maximum exposure to infection and disease, being employed in hospital it is absolutely necessary to follow guidelines set accordingly. Health care is industry directly associated with care of humans and human life. Hospital staff plays a major role in identifying and meeting patients’ health care needs. Nursing is multi-dimensional role like hospital nurses, clinical nurses, community nurses, industrial nurses, nurse researchers, nurse teachers and so on

Here we are discussing about hospital nurses

The working conditions of nurses are many they work in outpatient departments where they are exposed to external sources as well as colonised infective cases.

Then the nurses work in inpatient departments where some are more open in nature and some are closed enclosures. The open environment is exposed to colonised infections and reservoirs of infections and on the other hand closed enclosures like ICU’s OT’s Lab’s etc… where they are exposed to large reservoirs of infections.

The working factors apart from exposure are many inadequate salary, heavy workload leave facilities, facilities provided, weekly off adjustments, working environmental conditions, treatment accorded, equipment’s, discipline, promotions, transfer, no grievances addressed. All these matters the most when we discuss the working environment.

Statistically currently, 59.2% rated the working conditions in their hospitals as poor.

2. The topic employment and working conditions should be grounded in synthesized evidence

The topics that need to be synthesized evidence under employment and working conditions are

a. Poor designing of hospitals

b. Novel and best-practice technologies

c. materials, and strategies

d. employer on health and safety

e. equipment and protective clothing

and many more…

3. Prevalence data

The disease burden has increased from 30% to 55% in the current scenario, disability has dropped to 33% but still is high, health financial spends are only 1.02% of GDP. Hence, it is clearly seen that even-though disease burden has increased there is no improvement if health spending which means poor working conditions and more patients and more burden on health.

4. Why we should care about employment and working conditions. build the case

Poor health expenditures and poor infrastructures along with poor administration puts health workers at risk. All these factors lead to poor working conditions which would lead to

a. Harm to health care providers

b. Unnecessary exposure to external and radiational stressors

c. Risk of controlled responsibilities

d. Lack of proper training and information regarding job

e. Poor- or low-quality equipment’s and protective clothing’s

f. Lack of toilets, drinking water and washing facilities

g. Lack of aid facilities

h. No insurance provisions

i. inadequate salary,

j. heavy workload

k. no leave facilities,

l. no facilities provided, weekly off adjustments,

m. lack of treatment accorded,

n. lack of discipline,

o. no promotions,

p. no liked transfer,

q. no grievances addressed

5. Should create a compelling case as to why working conditions and employment is a priority

Good working conditions would bring the best outcomes in any industry. Good working conditions like

- proper amenities,

- good physical environment,

- low on stress and noise levels,

- high on degree of safety or less danger,

- risk free

- job security

- profit sharing

- renumeration

- employee benefits

- work life culture

- organisational culture

- good performance management

- flexible work schedule

all these factors of good working conditions would imply on the industry and mutual benefit of the employee and employer are seen

a good working conditions will cause

a. interest in work

b. high on production

c. high on job satisfaction

d. low on attrition

e. high on centralised benefits

f. low on working union strikes

g. good health of employees

h. occupational safety

i. administrative management would be seen progressive

j. great financial revenue

6. Discussion of the current solutions to employment and working conditions. Suggestions for future feasible solution.

Currently there is lot of descriptionist in the working condition of nurse, a pandemic situation has led to the global out cry of working condition of nurses. The health burden has increased 10 times the normal limit and under these circumstances the working burden and infrastructure has collapsed

The suggestions are as discussed earlier would help in identifying the problems as a nurse

A nurse should also contribute from her side

a. Follow training received given about using equipment or materials the employer has provided

b. Taking care of own health and other people’s health and safety

c. co-operate with your employer on health and safety

d. if the work or inadequate precautions are putting anyone’s health and safety at risk seek help from authorities