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The impact on work‐related stress of mental health teams following team‐based learning on clinical risk management
Author(s) -
SHARKEY S. B.,
SHARPLES A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2850.2003.00534.x
Subject(s) - mental health , psychology , agency (philosophy) , team learning , stress management , risk management , work (physics) , applied psychology , process (computing) , stress (linguistics) , nursing , medical education , knowledge management , medicine , clinical psychology , business , psychiatry , cooperative learning , computer science , pedagogy , engineering , open learning , teaching method , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , finance , operating system
Risk management is viewed as a systematic process based on multiprofessional and multi‐agency decision‐making. A learning pack was developed as part of a team‐based learning project aiming to encourage and develop collaborative working practice. This brought different professionals and agencies working in mental health together to learn. There is little doubt that mental health practice is a source of stress for practitioners. Apart from the stress associated with managing ‘risky’ situations, risk management is also a relatively new concept. This can increase stress around ability to cope, both on an individual practitioner level and in teams. This article reports the impact that the learning pack had on team members’ stress, specifically work‐related stress. A range of scales were used to measure change in stress and results demonstrated reduced work‐related pressure in a number of areas following the learning. The implications for team learning in relation to clinical risk management are discussed in light of the findings.