Introduction
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, healthcare systems in several nations have been overloaded and strained beyond their finances and capability while people strive to provide high-quality care. Even while infection rates have weakened in several sections of the ecosphere, the glitches for health organizations are likely to endure, exacerbated by the outline of new, highly infectious forms of the disease (Søvold, 2021). The dangers to psychological health are widespread, impacting millions of individuals who were traumatized by regional or national shutdowns and left vulnerable to drug addiction or solitude, lost family members to the viral infection, or were scared of being sick, and those dealing with the pandemic’s dire economic implications (Søvold, 2021).
Mental Health
The emotional needs of healthcare personnel and people in the battle ranks of the epidemic response must be forgotten during this challenging recovery phase. The mental fitness necessities of healthcare workforces have grown more attention in current centuries as a severe public health delinquent and a hazard to care quality conveyance. Healthcare employees are subjected to numerous sources of stress, which can severely affect their physical, cognitive, and emotional health (Søvold, 2021). Therefore, this presentation focuses on healthcare workers’ mental health from various perspectives, including their mental healthcare at rural homes, spiritual care, general health care, clinical management, organizational health, and how attaining a healthy surrounding benefits clinicians.
Goals
By selecting the topic of the mental health of healthcare providers, the researcher aims at recognizing how the hospital provides Mental Health Services for Healthcare Providers of Critical Patients (Søvold, 2021). The project setting (facility) will be a primary care facility. Jewell Snider will be the mentor there. This project’s significant goals include exploring the stress, exhaustion, and mental health problems healthcare employees face. This project will also explore the mental healthcare amenities critical patients receive from health practitioners, especially during the pandemic.
Needs Assessment
Needs assessments are handy tools for making decisions, allocating resources, and achieving programmatic objectives. They can be used in various contexts to gloss over a range of themes, such as programmatic activities that should be made in a hospice to enhance breastfeeding charges or increase preschool readiness all over a municipality. The perceived needs of this project include financial needs, stakeholder needs, patient needs, spiritual needs, equipment needs, and funding needs. The researcher will use various tools to conduct a needs assessment, including literature searches and observations to make conclusions on the research theme.
Stakeholders
Psychologists, nurses, and social workers are the three stakeholders in this project. Psychologists are the stakeholders who want to support the project. Social workers are the stakeholders who are not swayed either way but need to be informed, and nurses as stakeholders may believe this will hurt what they do and may resist. To address all three stakeholder groups, the researcher will write a letter to both of them, requesting them to correct information about mental health that will be used only for research purposes. Writing the letter before conducting the research will play a vital role in communicating and understanding the stakeholders and the researcher’s approaches while collecting data.
Project Requirements and Tools
To accomplish the project goals, the scholar expects various financial, time, and material resources such as equipment and tools. The WBS and PERT technique will play essential roles for the author to measure if the project needs are met (Suryono & Hasbullah, 2020). Before starting the project, the scholar will examine the mental health of the involved stakeholders and compare the results with the project findings. When designing and implementing the interventions, Christian servant leadership approaches will play significant roles in giving the researcher guidance on optimizing and developing performance. Servant leaders focus on performance preparation, day-to-day education, and helping persons achieve.
Literature Review
Secondary data about the project topic is already available, focusing more on practitioners’ mental health while caring for critical patients. The researcher will use literature search strategies including keywords, phrases, and key terms such as mental health. The online school library is the central database the researcher will use to conduct the research. Only sources with mental health information will be included, while sources that lack mental information will be excluded from the search. The researcher will use the CRAAP test to evaluate the source to determine whether the sources are trustable (Esparrago-Kalidas, 2021).
Rural People’s Mental Health
While caring for the mental health issues of rural people presents numerous problems. Also, there are numerous developing possibilities for fulfilling the demand of this neglected group. Mental health experts can start to make differences among rural populations and resolve the disproportionally considerable mental health hardship they encounter by becoming acquainted with their particular requirements (Smalley et al., 2012). When chaplains know the people they are guiding, it becomes easier to identify their mental health, including the strains and stresses the people may be facing. The knowledge enables chaplains to recognize the essence of organizational culture and represent various people (Cline-Dean, 2016).
Mental Services
Mental healthcare services include primary and secondary services. Primary services entail offering primary care, such as referring patients with mild mental health challenges to counselors. Patients with severe or suicidal illnesses are referred to secondary services, which entail support and social workers, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, and psychiatric nurses (Hardy and Gray, 2012). During the recovery process, primary healthcare practitioners should work with recovery frameworks to recognize the recovery stage of the mental health victim to know how to give hope to the patient. Increased efforts on general health prevention and promotion initiatives could result in a healthier population (Institute of Medicine, 1979).
Clinical Demand
Clinical demand is determined by both clients’ clinical features and interventions used and is not solely a function of numbers. Regarding workload management, captains and managers must determine where clinical company expectations may be controlled and where quasi-duties can be streamlined. Choice can be aided by using guidelines and tools (Lloyd et al., 2009). A solid system of supervisory capabilities and support and high-quality, continual coaching and surveillance of staff actions all contribute to the establishment of an exceptional organization. High quality of service and integrity will be achieved with appropriately qualified and guided administrators who can implement these concepts.
Supervision
Poor supervision is one of the most common complaints among social workers (Pecora et al., 2010). Primary, intermediate, and tertiary initiatives should be combined to promote employee health by reducing job tension and anxiety in designing these programs (Burke, 2016). It assists in recognizing where mental disorder originated from and the ways it progressed to what people believe it to be currently to comprehend it better, its function in work, and the reasons it is typically seen negatively. The mental illness history helps put the stigma associated with it in context. This knowledge is critical for all nurses in the workplace to better recognize, educate, and help individuals and coworkers who are suffering from mental (Adams, 2014).
Biblical Reflection
In Matthew 5:3–7, the impoverished spirit is blessed, for they belong to heaven. Those who suppurate are sacred since God will console them. The meek will rule the earth, and they will be blessed. Those who thirst and hunger for justice will find it and be content. The compassionate will be sanctified since God will be kind to them. As a healthcare professional, my work is often in response to the needs of those I serve. These verses will play essential roles in recognizing my spiritual poverty and the urge for God, enabling me to work according to God’s will, and giving hope to those impacted with mental illnesses. In turn, these verses will enable those I serve to maintain a healthy relationship with God and work towards God’s will.
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