The Relationship Between Nurses’ Mental Well-being and the Provision of Emotional Support to Patients in Acute Care Settings
Dahir, Ayaan; Heinonen, Emilia; Muteto, Honorine (2025)
2025
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Nurses are prone and vulnerable to becoming exhausted, hence them experiencing work-related stress. Acute care settings are usually highly demanding environments, which challenge nurses to navigate enormous workloads while they are simultaneously offering and additionally delivering emotional support to their patients.
This literature review explores how nurses working in acute care settings perceive their mental well-being and what effects it has on their ability regarding on offering emotional support for their patients. In addition to that, this review also aims to heighten the importance of the support that nurses need to better their mental well-being when working in these acute care settings. By receiving proper support, nurses could improve and furthermore increase the emotional support they provide for their patients.
In total, fifteen (15) articles were selected by using inclusion and exclusion criteria made by the writers of this thesis. The articles were primarily collected from EBSCO, CINAHL, and MEDLINE. We, as the writers, also utilized these databases for snowballing to conclude the full number of articles used in this thesis. The selected data used in this thesis were analyzed by using inductive content analysis as the chosen method.
After reviewing the chosen literature, the findings point out that nurses working in acute care settings perceive emotional exhaustion as the most prominent theme when considering their mental well-being. Nurses’ mental well-being has an influence on the consistency as well as the quality of the emotional support they are able to offer to their patients, specifically in acute care settings.
Overall, the findings from the chosen literature showed that nurses’ mental well-being rises above a personal concern and is essential as well as vital to ensure quality and safety for patient care.
This literature review explores how nurses working in acute care settings perceive their mental well-being and what effects it has on their ability regarding on offering emotional support for their patients. In addition to that, this review also aims to heighten the importance of the support that nurses need to better their mental well-being when working in these acute care settings. By receiving proper support, nurses could improve and furthermore increase the emotional support they provide for their patients.
In total, fifteen (15) articles were selected by using inclusion and exclusion criteria made by the writers of this thesis. The articles were primarily collected from EBSCO, CINAHL, and MEDLINE. We, as the writers, also utilized these databases for snowballing to conclude the full number of articles used in this thesis. The selected data used in this thesis were analyzed by using inductive content analysis as the chosen method.
After reviewing the chosen literature, the findings point out that nurses working in acute care settings perceive emotional exhaustion as the most prominent theme when considering their mental well-being. Nurses’ mental well-being has an influence on the consistency as well as the quality of the emotional support they are able to offer to their patients, specifically in acute care settings.
Overall, the findings from the chosen literature showed that nurses’ mental well-being rises above a personal concern and is essential as well as vital to ensure quality and safety for patient care.