Monday, June 7, 2010

Research Questions for Essay # 3

My essay title is " Emotional labor affects workers within the health care industry particularly in nurses'.Here are some research questions.They may relate to my essay topic.

What skill do you have for this specific job?

What do see as the negative and positive features of this specialty?

What is your greatest strength and weakness, and how will these affect your performance here?

How do you get along with patients?

What are you doing now in your life that you hope to continue doing?

What differences do you see between the health care system in this country and that in your country/

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Most Dangerous Job

What is Kenny's attitude on his job? How does it compare to your experience and/or people you know?

Kenny's life as a Monfort employee for almost sixteen years was awful.He worked so hard for the company.But the company didn't care for what he did.Even he got work related injuries,there was no worker compensation for Kenny.He still worked in that company for his family and got no benefit at all.Kenny felt a strong loyalty to Monfort.After I read the story,I can't believe their lives was so terrible to survive. This job situation was causing great pain and suffering to a lot of workers by physically and emotionally.
Writer visited a slaughterhouse, one of the nation's largest somewhere in the High Plains.Nobody saw what happened inside the building.There were different kind of work related issues within the building.Most workers are illegal, uneducated immigrants.They don't know their future working like this way.Also,employer speed up and force to work for their profits.Workers don't know the value of union and how to protect their safety during working hours.Working hour s was long and didn't get over time payment. There were no benefit after long time worked in factory. During his trip, writer met dozen of workers who had been injured.Each of their stories was different.Also, workers struggle to receive proper medical care. They were afraid to speaking out. They couldn't argue with their supervisor or manager.Why didn't workers challenge that situation? They didn't want to lose their job or didn't have enough information.I felt so bad for their lives.America has long been known as the "land of opportunity," and hundreds of thousands of people come to live here every year, seeking better life.So, what should we do for those workers?

Essay #3 first paragraph

(Emotional labor Affects Workers Within the Health care Industry Particularly in Nurses )

I will use this sentence as my essay title. Here is my first paragraph.


Today most jobs are service jobs. Workers deal with people rather than with things. Some jobs especially in the health care industry are more correlated and demanding with emotional management.When employees control their emotions in other to display the emotions that are expected of them in workplace, they are performing emotional labor. They may do this by suppressing or hiding their real feelings and/or expressing emotions that they do not actually feel. In another words, employees may express socially accepted emotions at work. If these emotions don't fit with situational requirements and expectations, employees may be engaging in stressful condition.In long run,employee's daily physical and mental activities will deteriorate. Even after finishing work, Camelita Lester, practical nurse from Studs Terkel's book, mentions that "The works don't leave my mind. I have been so long with her that it became part of me. In my mind it's always working (502). In physical labor, workers don't need to worry except for finishing on time and making sure a good has been produced. Within the health care field,employees,especially nurses have to put on a nice smile and be compassionate to patients because nurses have to deal with humans, not machine.Nurses have to create emotion for someone Else's benefit. Nurses take their place as distinct members of the health-care team. They are in a unique position to observe patient need.