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Overworked Medical and Hospital Staffs The term common good follows a particular principle. The principle of common good is “every aspect of social life must be related if it is to attain its fullest meaning, stems from the dignity, unity, and equality of all people." According to this principle, common good refers to a social condition that allows people to reach goals or objectives either as an individual or group. Overwork of medical staff is a global issue that is impacting on the lives of medical staffs and decreasing their efficiency. According to the principle of CST, every human being is valuable, and dignity of a human has transcendent value and it helps to promote common good (Donley, Grandjean, Jairath & McMullen, 2006). However, unequal distribution of responsibility in health sector is impacting in dignity of nursing workers.

The issue of overworked hospital and medical staff has become a global issue. According to Curtis, Fry, Shaban & Considine (2017), the shared responsibility in terms of the common good is not being realized by local and global people. It means that some of the healthcare professionals are not realizing that they must perform collaboratively by sharing their responsibility for serving care. As per the principle of the common good, benefit of all people within the society must be considered while performing. Some of the healthcare professionals including doctors and nurses work overtime and face extreme exhaustion due to insufficient sleep and resting time. On the other hand, Rogers & Wattis (2015) have contradicted that some of the healthcare professionals believe in own benefit and do not understand the principle of common good. Overworked nurses and other healthcare professionals are trying to provide the best medical support to the public. However, it can be seen that the quality of healthcare is being reduced worldwide due to lack of shared responsibility within healthcare staff.

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This issue has a strong impact on society in terms of local and global context. Nurses and other healthcare professionals, who are working overtime, always face the issue of burnout. They fail to provide their best effort at workplace. These people understand the concept of the common good, but they cannot serve properly without the cooperation of all coworkers. As a result, the stress level of healthcare employees including doctors, nurses and clinical staff are increasing day by gay in a global context. According to Grace (2017), this consequence is indicating that standard of healthcare is decreasing day by day throughout the world and lack of shared responsibility in healthcare professional is the main reason behind this challenging issue. It is important to address these challenges with the vision of common good for ensuring benefits to all the members of community.

For mitigating this global issue of overworked medical staff, different solutions can be provided. Equal distribution of responsibility is the main solution that can help to minimize the problem to a greater extent. As opined by Papadopoulos, Shea, Taylor, Pezzella & Foley (2016), common good or welfare for all can be achieved through the provision of equal value to all people irrespective of their gender and culture. Hence, maintaining and preserving human dignity can help to achieve the common good. In nursing professional community proper understanding needs to be there among workers that can help in the distribution of workload. Moreover, the local government need to frame proper policies to avoid overwork of healthcare workers. This is because stressed workers are unable to provide good service and care to patients. Policies regarding work division can be done through proper implementation of a framework that can help to increase efficiency of workers and quality of service. Hence, welfare of both nursing professionals and patients can be done. Local healthcare authorities and local government must communicate with healthcare professionals to understand the reason behind lack of shared responsibility among healthcare workers.

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Local hospitals and healthcare organizations must avoid all kinds of biases while distributing workload. Workload must be distributed based on ability and experience of healthcare staff. This approach may help organizations to serve better to society. Moreover, the principle of common good can be easily considered through this practice. Another solution is to ensure flexible shifts for healthcare professionals and authority of hospitals and healthcare associations can play an important role in this regard. Healthcare professionals must serve as per their shift time assigned by authority. According to Kunzweiler et al. (2016), this practice must be implemented globally with the help of government of respective countries. Government of different countries need to develop a legal framework with fix shift time for healthcare professionals. It must be monitored that all healthcare professionals are giving their best effort within assigned shift and no overtime is being served. As opined by Sison, Ferrero & Guitián (2016), this practice may help to reduce stress in healthcare staff, and it is possible to focus on the principle of common good. Additionally, it can be said that this practice is potent enough to enhance the quality of healthcare service throughout the world. Allowing healthcare and hospital staff to work in a flexible shift will help hospital authorities to incorporate the principle of human dignity. As mentioned by Razavi & Staab (2010), flexible working hours helps individuals to maintain balance between their professional and personal life. Moreover, burnout in hospitals in different countries can be avoided by implementing this solution. It means that patients will get the best quality medical support from these organizations of healthcare industry. This aspect is potential to help in ensuring community engagement. Cooperation from patients and their families with nurses and doctors can ensure their speedy recovery. International rules of work division can also help to mitigate this problem.

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international organizations need to bring laws that can help in equal distribution of labor in nursing care. As stated by Kingma (2008), human dignity can be increased by providing

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rights and respecting their values. Inappropriate work division impacts on the achievement of common good and thus satisfaction rate of both patients and workers decreases. The global human rights organizations need to increase awareness among nursing communities all around the world regarding the advantages of collaboration. Moreover, management of healthcare centers need to be guided regarding human resource techniques. Recruitment of appropriate workers can decrease stress from current group of staff (Marć, Bartosiewicz, Burzyńska, Chmiel & Januszewicz, 2019). Global organizations like WHO need to frame proper policies that can impact on operations of local nursing authorities and organizations. Increase in collaborative approach by nursing staff is another solution to reduce overwork. This can be implemented globally throughout all the countries and regions. As opined by Rogers & Wattis (2015), with the help of collaboration among the nursing staff, they can share and gain feedback and information regarding working techniques. Hence, common good can be achieved through this process and stress level of overworked nursing staff can be reduced. Nursing staffs of different developed countries can share their experiences and techniques with other staff from different parts of the globe. This can help them to learn new techniques of work division and can also learn about cooperation. Thus, equal work division can be achieved, and human dignity can be preserved. These solutions can be applied to achieve the common good and thus welfare of the nurses, patients and whole community can be achieved.

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