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posted on 2018-04-04, 14:29 authored by Nebil Achour, Subasheni Munokaran, Faith Barker, Robby SoetantoRobby Soetanto
Much research has been conducted to increase the resilience of healthcare service to major hazards; however, every time a major hazard takes place we discover that this critical service is yet to reach the anticipated resilient state. This paper reports an ongoing research work that looked at: the resilience of the structure of healthcare facilities, equipment stability, lifeline (utility) supplies, the interaction between hospitals and emergency agencies and the support the latter can provide during major emergencies. This paper presents findings on the ability of human resources to deal with the stress associated with major hazards. A mixed research method was adopted, including a systematic literature review followed by a survey to gather evidence about the stress level amongst healthcare staff in hospitals and their motivation. The literature review was conducted to find information about the level of stress healthcare staff experience with during major emergencies. Findings suggest that healthcare staff remain at high risk of stress and thus represent a major weakness of healthcare service resilience. The research concludes with a set of recommendations to address this issue.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

7th International Conference on Building Resilience

Pages

459 - 466 (8)

Citation

ACHOUR, N. ... et al, 2018. Staff stress: the sleeping cell of healthcare failure. Procedia Engineering, 212, pp.459-466.

Publisher

Elsevier © The Authors

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-11-01

Publication date

2018

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This paper was also presented at the 7th International Conference on Building Resilience, ICBR2017, Bangkok, Thailand, 27–29 November 2017.

ISSN

1877-7058

Language

  • en

Location

Bangkok, Thailand

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