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UNCC 300: Assessment Task 3 Overworked medical and hospital staff Word Count: 1279

Nursing plays a pivotal role in the promotion of healthcare and assistance in healthcare services both locally and global communities. Within the healthcare profession, it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a growth in overworked medical staff. Consequently, those who are overworked in the healthcare setting undergo incredible stress and fatigue, negatively impacting their health and patient care. Subsequently not achieving the Common Good life and human dignity.

The Catholic Social Teachings promote the participation of individuals within society.

Everyone has the right to participate in the community and it is a basic right and a necessity for the foundations of human dignity (Catholic Charities, 2019). While the health professionals do contribute
in the participation within the global community, it can come as a cost when they are overworked. In a number of studies, it had found that poor medical staff wellbeing and increased levels of burnouts are linked with poor patient safety outcomes such as medical error (Hall, Johnson, Watt, Tsipa & O’Connor, 2016). The increased workloads also result in increased work absenteeism where they can not contribute and participate within the community. This fundamentally negatively affects the quality of care required by the patient. Both the patient and the medical worked have

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To realize the common good, there needs to be stability between meeting the needs of medical professionals and the safety for both them and the patients. There are numerous initiatives and support systems in place to promote advocacy for the overworked medical professionals. One of which is a European Commission Working Time Directive, which was introduced in 1993, requiring the EU countries to agree to a number of rights for all medical workers such as no more than a 48 hour week, free health assessment for night workers and minimum twenty minute rest in a work period over six hours (Cunningham, 2018). The added regulation contributes to reduced medical staff being overloaded and burnt out and able to contribute to the common good.

Massaro (2012) affirms that everyone is entitled to promote the common good, by making their own contribution within society to enrich the living of the community.

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Reference:
Australian Catholic University. (2019) UNCC 100 Refresher: The
Principles of Catholic Social Thought and the Common Good. UNCC 300 Materials. Retrieved from https://leo.acu.edu.au/mod/equella/view.php?id=2626078.

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van den Oetelaar, W. F., van Stel, H. F., van Rhenen, W., Stellato, R. K., & Grolman, W. (2016). Balancing nurses' workload in hospital wards: study protocol of developing a method to manage workload. BMJ open, 6(11), e012148.

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012148