Work-family conflict and balance strategies are most likely to occur in nurses

The most common work-family conflict and balance strategies for nursing staff, here is how to do it!

Nursing work has a certain particularity, in the development of nursing work, there are morning shifts, middle shifts and evening shifts, the life of nursing staff is not regular, so the scene often appears is: When others are happy to get off work, the nursing staff is in a hurry to go to work, especially in some special holidays, others are celebrating the holiday with their families, reuniting together, the nursing staff need to stick to the work to help and care for patients in need of treatment. As a nursing staff, they lack the companionship and care for their family members in daily life, and more conflicts and contradictions arise due to the particularity of work. When there is a conflict between work and family, it will inevitably affect the mood of nursing staff and the smooth development of work, so it is necessary for nursing staff to strike a balance in time to eliminate conflicts and contradictions between work and family. Pave the way for the smooth development of nursing team. The following is mainly to help nursing staff to analyze the causes of work conflicts, and put forward balance strategies, in order to help the majority of angels in white.

1. Causes of work-family conflicts among nursing staff

1.1 Time Reasons

Since most nurses are women, especially married women, in addition to completing their own nursing work, married women also play multiple roles in the family, not only need to take care of parents and the elderly, but also need to raise and educate children, and also need to undertake heavy and trivial housework activities, due to the particularity of nursing workers' working hours, Because of the irregular life caused by the working hours of three shifts, they gradually reduce the reunion time with their families in daily life, especially the time to participate in family socializing, which makes nursing staff unable to assume the role of wife and mother in normal families, and time reasons have become the biggest conflict in the working families of nursing staff. Nursing staff have no statutory holidays, such as rest, care for their families will be less, according to statistical analysis found that many nursing staff during the work, can spend the Spring Festival with their families, the proportion of time is very low, nursing staff even rarely go to the park with the whole family, so the husband, the children of nursing staff's opinion is larger. This is also a major factor in the conflict between work and family of nursing staff .

1.2 Working Pressure

Nursing work is different from other work, nursing staff need to pay more responsibility for work, and the work is risky, a little negligence will cause patients irreversible consequences. This requires nursing staff to be rigorous, responsible and meticulous in their work. Nursing staff are faced with people suffering from illness every day, and patients' pain and anxiety will also affect nursing staff. The heavy, trivial and high-intensity work of daily nursing work requires nursing staff to devote themselves to it. The quality of nursing work is also directly related to the therapeutic effect of patients. In recent years, with the continuous change of medical level and nursing mode, nursing staff have higher requirements for their work level and comprehensive literacy. Some nursing staff have low education and starting point, and there are professional learning, professional title promotion, continuing education and other pressures at work, which make nursing staff physically and mentally exhausted. In the hope of getting enough rest after work and failing to take into account housework and children's clothing, food, housing and transportation problems in time, the relationship between nursing staff and family members will also increase.

1.3 Low income and poor treatment

According to relevant research statistics, China's current hospital bed-to-nurse ratio is 1:04, the working time of nurses is more than 8 hours a day, and the working time is more than 5 days a week. The characteristics of overtime, overload and high pressure of nurses every day do not match their income and remuneration, and nurses cannot reflect their own sense of value and honor through work. Therefore, low income and poor treatment have become the main reasons for work-family conflicts.

2. Nursing staff work-family conflict balance strategy

2.1 Improve the time and quality of family companionship

Nursing staff can not change the special time of work, so the need to improve the quality of accompany after work, after work, try to accompany the family at home, accompany the child to do homework, play games, tell stories, etc., and actively drum the child, when the mother goes to work to be more brave and strong, to be a love of learning, obedient and sensible children. In the interval of work, you can contact your family through phone, video and other ways, so that your family can feel their care and love. In daily life, we should also contact our parents and the elderly, take our families to visit our parents when we have time, and accompany our parents to do housework and chat. After receiving care and love from caregivers, family members will be more supportive of nursing work, thus reducing work-family conflicts.

2.2 Increase communication and understanding

Nursing work ordinary hard, after the end of the work back home, more hope to get adequate rest and care, so the labor affairs in the family will be reduced, the family will be particularly do not understand, why work when vigorous, back home flagging? And the income of the nursing staff is not high, in the family to pay more, more tired is also the family, the family will inevitably have complaints and complaints in the daily, then the nursing staff to fully understand the family, give the family more tolerance and patience, more remember the advantages of the family and pay, so that its shortcomings can be reduced. When you and your family calm down, you need to communicate in a timely manner, increase the time and efficiency of communication, only good communication and exchange is the source of family harmony and stability. In the communication with family members, the first position should be objective and careful analysis of their own situation and needs, and put themselves in the position of family members to consider and analyze, eliminate family contradictions as soon as possible, and avoid long-term delay resulting in increasing contradictions and problems .

2.3 Be the master of your emotions

Nursing staff in the face of negative emotions in the work of patients, so that their work can not be understood and supported, some patients due to low personal quality, in the process of medical treatment do not know how to respect the nursing staff, and even their grievances and dissatisfaction are vented to the nursing staff, so the nursing staff will be very uncomfortable, after returning home, if the family does not give understanding and enlightenment, It will also cause family conflicts to escalate, and ultimately affect the harmony of the family. Therefore, nursing staff need to be the emotional master, establish empathy with patients, treat patients like family members, have more patience and care for family members, show their sunshine and positive side to family members, and avoid the breakdown of family relations.

2.4 Family and work are equally important

Nursing staff face the need to balance family and work, establish a correct cognition, understand the same importance of family and career, nursing work although ordinary, but can relieve the pain of patients, in the work can reflect their own personal value. Nursing work can also bring a certain amount of income, so that the income can give family members a better life. Family can provide spiritual comfort, and only the support and understanding of the family can make the nursing staff devote themselves to the work. Therefore, work and family should not conflict, but complement each other. Only by sincerely treating their families, managing the family as a career, and loving the career as a family, can the conflict between work and family be eliminated. In order to make more achievements in the work.

As an important part of the hospital, nursing staff is responsible for the treatment of patients and the heavy work pressure. Due to the heavy work load, occupational tension, risk and other factors, nursing work cannot balance and solve the conflict between family and work, so there are low satisfaction, job burnout and serious turnover tendency in work. This requires timely help for nursing staff to deal with and solve conflicts and contradictions between work and family, while learning relevant balance strategies, so that family relations and work quality can be improved, promote a virtuous cycle between the two, and then form a mutually reinforcing phenomenon.