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Happiness of health professional teams Young Rhan Um 1 1Nursing Department, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University pp.92-95
Published Date 2014/3/20
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Why can't nurses be happy?

 Everyone has the right to seek happiness. However, nurses donA't think that the term of happiness is related to them. Why? The first reason is misunderstanding of the concept of happiness. Generally, happiness is considered as ‘joyful or pleasant’ conditions. Nurses care for patients who suffer from diseases or disability. So nurses may feel guilty if they are happy while caring for patients. However, the concept of happiness is not simple. Some scholars classified levels or kinds of happiness. Traditional Eastern scholars consider mental happiness more important than physical.1 Nettle2 identified three meanings of happiness from ancient and modern scholars’ works: Level 1 momentary feeling (joy, physical pleasure); Level 2 judgment about feelings(well being, satisfaction); and Level 3 quality of life(flourishing, fulfilling potential). Admittedly, it seems strange for nurses to seek Level one happiness during their care of patients, but they can however pursue level two or three(internal satisfaction or self-actualization).

 The second reason is the perfectionism found in the nursing culture. Nurses think all their actions should be perfect because any nursing error could negatively impact patient's life and health. Senior nurses tend to scold new nurses' small mistakes, even if it is irrelevant to a patient's condition. This has a negative effect on nurses' confidence and often leads to high dropout rate. Ben-Shahar3 differentiated positive perfectionism from negative. He referred to negative perfectionism simply as perfectionism, and positive perfectionism as optimalism. If nurses try to be optimalists, they could accept reality as it is, appreciate their effort and other nurses' irrelevant outcome, and be benefit finders from fault finders.


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