WHY TO MOTIVATE NURSES?

Nursing is a sensitive career that plays an important role in society. It is a multi skill career that should be rewarded because nurses are the eye of health care staff about patients' condition.

Nurses are placed in a work which forces them to deal with pain, sickness, death and depression. They deal with human beings, no mistakes are allowed; it could be a patient life or the patient might be at risk for suffering. The nature of their work is tough and stressful, because of the long working hours, shift working hours, and they have to work during holidays and other occasion time, so they loose their normal life style.

At the same time, the expression of feeling in front of the patients is not

acceptable. The nurse should have the skills and abilities to deal with situations like doing care after death and be sympathy with the family of a patient who died, and continue her work with another patient having a smile on her face. It is the ability and the art of handling stress in a positive attitude.

At the end, nurses are human beings who need to be rewarded for their great job in reducing suffering of patients and saving lives at least with a thankful word to absorb their stresses during their work and allow them to be motivated to perform high standard of care, work harder, and move along with their tough career. Unmotivated staff has a bad effect on the delivery of care of patients and the quality of care. If a nurse cannot find anything motivates him/her to do the work, leaving the workplace could be the butter idea; instead of doing medical mistake that could affect their dignity. This may occur as a result of lack of interest to work or work under stress and being less concentrated and less productive.

That can explain the presence of shortage within nursing all over the world. So, hospitals need to know how to motivate their nurses and show them that their effort was of value to keep them from burning off. Motivation works as supportive tool that enhances nurses to success and go along with their work. Motivating the nurses is not the only issue, but motivating them in a way having their sense of responsibility toward their work to ensure the safety of the patients.