Current Issue and Plan of Action Paper

Running head: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER
Impact of stress and how to handle it
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Introduction
People live in moment where stress is order of the day. People always concern about uncertainty in life. In places where hunger, violence, and war are common, each day brings new dangers. We feel it in various moments for different reasons. It interferes with our ability to work on particular circumstances; high level of stress is dangerous in health. Constant stress can results in ulcer, headaches, heart problem and skin reactions. It can decrease immune system that fights disease and infection. Chronic stress causes cancer. We experience emotional stress because we process information about events that happens around us when our body responds to them.
Marellei (2004) claims that stress can arise from overwork, dealing with relatives, lack of resources, examination, feeling inadequate in carrying a task, conflict with others, being in a new situation for a first time.
According to Dollard (2011), nature of work stress renders health care vulnerable to social, political and economic manipulation. Work stress is an epidemic; an economic challenge as a public phenomenon. It is crucial for the public sector to improve health care services of workers as a way of promoting performance of various organizations in public sector. Also, legal issues should be formulated to deal with behaviors where stress is seen as a scapegoat for management problems in public sector. There should be workers’ compensation stress claim; this does not suggest that public sector environment is stressful. However, public sector industries have more stress claims. Stress arising out of employment has to be considered as a legal concern because it is a substantial cause of disorder of the mind. Legalization has change definition of stress-related disabilities to psychiatric disabilities to tighten the process. Work stress compensation scheme is a philosophy of care by management to workers in an organization, and aim by occupational health safety to examine issues of work stress.
For Marelli (2004), most clinical nurse managers spend p...