Psychology Related Problem Or Challenge At An Organization

Burnout and its Impact to an Individual and Job satisfaction
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Burnout and its Impact to an Individual and Job satisfaction
Professional burnout is a prevalent problem in almost every occupation and has a significant impact on professional conduct and how they deliver service. Kumar (2016) defines professional burnout as a long-term process of stress that leads to mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion. Occupational burnout is often accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and exhaustion and is a common cause of lack of job satisfaction. Prevalence of job burnouts affects individuals and groups as they are common causes of family and relationships problems. This paper discusses my experience with job burnout and how it affected my health and relationship with others at the private office at the CS Family Dental Hospital. Occupational burnout is an issue that requires immediate attention or else it can affect personal health and transfer adverse impacts to the clients and other people in workplaces.
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I worked as a physician at a private office at the CS Family Dental. The organization deals with the treatment and caring for people with mental problems. I worked in busy private office where I served twenty to thirty patients within twelve-hours. My office did not have nurses to help in prescribing medication. Each doctor was responsible for receiving the patients, talking to them about their problems, and prescribing medication. I did not see this as a problem at first, because I felt that I was learning to become a responsible professional. However, after one month of service, I started getting exhausted and started questioning my profession. I felt that I needed someone to talk, someone to keep me company, and someone to help me in the office. This was my first experience with depression and I never thought that it could have adverse impact on my health.
One day I decided to talk to a colleague who was working in the next office. I asked him about his experience in his department and he told me that the hospital had reduced the number of nurses after buying technological machines that could enhance service delivery. While it is expected that technology should make work easy and complement human labor, the management at CS Family Dental had decided to reduce the number of nurses to reduce operational costs. None of the doctors had dared to talk to the management about work overload because the decision had been made by top management and it was the final. Three doctors had quit the hospital three months earlier and one of them quit during my second month at the office. The main reason was occupational stress, but the hospital management had not made any significant decision to address the issue. The department did not have a psychologist to help provide counseling services to physicians that were working under pressure. If one was traumatized, it was a personal responsibility to seek private service outside the facility.
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