Ethics in human resource management: potential for burnout among healthcare workers in ART and community care centres
| Autor: | R Aarthy, Kumar M Santhosh, Ramanathan Mala, Avijit Anshul |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male Inservice Training media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment education Control (management) Personnel Staffing and Scheduling India HIV Infections Workload Burnout Nursing Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Antiretroviral Therapy Highly Active Health care Adaptation Psychological Medicine Humans Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory Post-exposure prophylaxis Function (engineering) Burnout Professional media_common business.industry Health Policy General Medicine Community Health Centers Professional-Patient Relations medicine.disease Human resource management Workforce Female Guideline Adherence business |
| Zdroj: | Indian journal of medical ethics. 7(3) |
| ISSN: | 0974-8466 |
| Popis: | This paper examines ethical dilemmas in providing care for people with HIV/AIDS. Healthcare providers in this sector are overworked, particularly in the high prevalence states. They are faced with the dual burden of the physical and the emotional risks of providing this care. The emotional risks result from their inability to control their work environment, while having to deal with the social and cultural dimensions of patients' experiences. The physical risk is addressed to some extent by post exposure prophylaxis. But the emotional risk is largely left to the individual and there is little by way of institutional responsibility for minimising this. The guidelines for training workers in care and support programmes do not include any detailed institutional mechanisms for reducing workplace stress. This aspect of the programme needs to be examined for its ethical justification. The omission of institutional mechanisms to reduce the emotional risks experienced by healthcare providers in the HIV/AIDS sector could be a function of lack of coordination across different stakeholders in programme development. This can be addressed in further formulations of the programme. Whatever the reasons may be for overlooking these needs, the ethics of this choice need to be carefully reviewed. |
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