Health Care’s Dares: Challenging Duties and Psychoemotional Issues to Female Nurse – Human Resources in Professional Practices

Abstract

The key aim of this research has been to discover challenging duties and associated psychoemotional issues confronted by female nurse – human resources during their professional medical practice in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The respondents were 50 female nurses, selected as sample, from public sector hospitals of Karak, Kohat, and Peshawar, performing their duties in general medical health setting. The primary data was collected from respondents through close ended questionnaire. In study, majority respondents shared their experience regarding their heavy duties, multiple tasks, and conflicting roles. They shared about their psychological distresses linked with their professional practices, their readiness deficiencies, patients’ attitude, workplace environment’ inconduciveness, physicians’ attitude, their profession’s respect in society, and patients’ acute sufferings, patients’ attendants’ attitude, tiresomeness etc. It is recommended that the nurses’ duties, responsibilities, workload, and work duration, may be rationalized. Additionally, their education, training, and skills may be enhanced, and they may be given training on stress-coping, emotional control, and professional treatment and dealing of patients etc.