CAUSES OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG JUNIOR COLLEGE LECTURERS

Occupational stress is a noticeable and widespread aspect of contemporary businesses. The right amount of stress may motivate someone and boost performance, while too much stress results in poor performance. One of the jobs with the highest stress is teaching. Psychiatric disorders can result from excessive stress. The study's goal is to identify the main factors contributing to junior college lecturers' stress. The present study involves 79 lecturers from private junior colleges (43 male and 36 female). Two sections (Part A & B) make up the questionnaire. Part-A contains demographic data on junior college lecturers, and Part-B has nine stress-related factors against which lecturers have to give ranking from most stress factor 1 to least stress factor 9. Statistical analysis employs the Garrett ranking approach. The ?ndings show that lecturers experience the highest stress from students' misbehavior, followed by work pressure and no job security.

Revisión de cirugía laparoscópica durante la pandemia por COVID-19 / Laparoscopic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic a review

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has changed the management protocols of the different surgical areas and practices of health institutions around the world. The countries most affected by the disease have reported an alarming impact on the number of infected and deceased by COVID-19 among health workers. Personnel specialized in airway management have a greater risk of contagion when directly exposed to the aerosolization of the virus. This leads us to consider the probability of postponing or restricting procedures due to limited resources and/or due to patient conditions that increase the risk of death, given that the usual surgical techniques generate more aerosols. This narrative review article aims to analyze the risk of contamination of professionals in laparoscopic surgery of patients infected by COVID-19, proposing strategies to minimize the risk of exposure, identifying the necessary protection measures for health professionals, providing recommendations and adaptations of both the surgical technique and the organization of the operating room according to clinical and scientific evidence.

La pandemia por el SARS-CoV-2 ha cambiado los protocolos de manejo de las distintas áreas y prácticas quirúrgicas de las instituciones de salud en el mundo. Los países con mayor afectación de la enfermedad han reportado un impacto alarmante sobre el número de infectados y fallecidos por COVID-19 entre trabajadores de la salud. El personal especializado en el manejo de la vía aérea, posee un mayor riesgo de contagio al exponerse directamente a la aerosolización del virus. Esto conlleva a considerar la probabilidad de posponer o restringir procedimientos por limitación de los recursos y/o por condiciones del paciente que aumenten el riesgo de muerte, dado que las técnicas quirúrgicas habituales generan más aerosoles. Este artículo, de revisión narrativa, pretende analizar el riesgo de contaminación de los profesionales en cirugía laparoscópica de pacientes infectados por COVID-19, proponiendo estrategias para minimizar el riesgo de exposición, identificando las medidas necesarias de protección para los profesionales de la salud, aportando recomendaciones y adaptaciones tanto de la técnica quirúrgica como de la organización del quirófano según la evidencia clínica y científica

Correlation between job security as motivation and career maturity among Japanese nursing students / Journal of Rural Medicine

Objective: For nursing students, career maturity –an individual’s readiness to cope with career development tasks and make age-appropriate career decisions– is an essential factor influencing their desire to continue the job after qualifying as a nurse. Although job security as motivation to become a nurse might influence the career maturity of nursing students, it has not been demonstrated. In this study I aimed to elucidate the correlation between job security as motivation and career maturity among Japanese nursing students.Patients and Methods: This study was conducted in 2012, through an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire, on 237 Japanese nursing students. Data on career maturity, job security as motivation, and personal characteristics were collected followed by data analysis using multiple regression.Results: Job security as motivation (“A nursing job is not affected by the economic climate”) was significantly correlated with career maturity (β = −0.29; p < 0.001).Conclusion: This study demonstrated that being motivated by job security negatively affects career maturity. Hence, at an early stage, basic nursing educators should identify nursing students with low career maturity by assessing whether they are motivated by job security, and if so, efficiently providing support to improve their career maturity.

Construction of legitimate interest safeguard mechanism for mental health workers / 中国心理卫生杂志

The legitimate rights of mental health workers don't get expected protection,which has caused negative influence on the development of mental health work.By introducing the Gantt v.Arnie Sethcase,we an-alyzed the law applicable disputes of doctors who are hurt by the patients with mental disorders,and made legal e-valuation on the views of relevant responsibility identification at home and abroad,and attempted to come up with some suggestions on construction of legitimate interest safeguard mechanism for mental-health workers from the as-pects of legislation and administrative policy.

The more you give, the more you get: reciprocal relationships between work engagement and task-related, interpersonal, and organizational resources / ¿Mientras más das, más recibes: relaciones recíprocas entre el engagement laboral y los recursos asociados a las labores, interpersonales y organizacionales

Drawing on broaden-and-build theory and conservation of resources theory, this study disentangles the reciprocal relationship between employee work engagement and job resources by separately examining task-related, interpersonal, and organizational job resources. More specifically, it hypothesizes that work engagement is not only a consequence of, but also antecedes, job control, esteem reward, and job security. Using data from a full two-wave panel study with a 15-month time lag among 591 eldercare workers, the authors examined normal, reversed, and reciprocal causation by means of structural equation modeling. They found that the reciprocal model best fits the data. As hypothesized, job security was mutually related to work engagement over time. By contrast, job control was shown to precede, and esteem reward was shown to follow from, work engagement. Theoretically speaking, these findings suggest that divergent mechanisms account for the relationships between job resources of various types and work engagement. Practically speaking, the development of a reciprocal cycle between work engagement and job security may represent an active coping process in an unstable economic situation, since data collection for this panel study commenced shortly after the onset of the global economic crisis.

Al utilizar la teoría abierta y construida junto con la teoría de la conservación de los recursos, este estudio desenmaraña la relación recíproca entre el engagement laboral de los trabajadores y los recursos laborales; esto, al examinar por separado los recursos laborales relacionados a las tareas interpersonales y organizacionales. Más específicamente, plantea que el engagement laboral no es sólo una consecuencia de, sino que antecede al control laboral, recompensa a la estima y a la seguridad laboral. Al utilizar los datos de un estudio completo de dos ondas con un desfase de 15 meses entre 591 personas que trabajan al cuidado de personas de la tercera edad, los autores examinan la causalidad normal, invertida y recíproca por medio del modelo de ecuaciones estructural. Los autores descubrieron que el modelo recíproco fue el que mejor se adaptaba a los datos. Tal y como se había planteado, la seguridad laboral se encontraba relacionada mutuamente con el engagement laboral a través del tiempo. En contraste, se encontró que el control laboral precedía al engament laboral, mientras que la recompensa a la estima era posterior. Hablando teóricamente, estos hallazgos sugieren que mecanismos divergentes explican las relaciones entre varios tipos de recursos laborales y engagement laboral. De manera práctica se podría decir que el desarrollo de un ciclo recíproco entre engagement y seguridad laboral podría representar un proceso de copia activo en un escenario económico inestable, debido a que la recolección de datos para este estudio de panel comenzó poco después del principio de la crisis económica mundial.