غلام آیا ہے آقاؐ مگر ہے شرمندہ
جھکی ہوئی ہیں نگاہیں ، نظر ہے شرمندہ
لبوں پہ کوئی بھی اک لفظ آ نہیں پاتا
دُعا کو ہاتھ اُٹھیں کیا اثر ہے شرمندہ
ہمارے ہاتھ بھی خالی ہیں اور دامن بھی
مدینے جاتے ہیں لیکن سفر ہے شرمندہ
بڑھا سکا نہ یہ ایمان کی حرارت کو
سو میرے دل میں دہکتا شرر ہے شرمندہ
اب ایک در پہ جُھکے بھی تو کیسے جُھک پائے
کہاں کہاں اِسے رکھا کہ سر ہے شرمندہ
مجھے یقین ہے اپنے کریم آقاؐ پر
صدا کرم کی سنوں گا، ’’کدھر ہے شرمندہ‘‘
مجھے سلیقۂ توصیف ہی نہیں عابدؔ
میں نعت لکھتا ہوں لیکن ہنر ہے شرمندہ
Psychological morbidity is emerging as animportant issue for medical students after entering clinical training due to extensiveworking hours. Students find themselves unable to balance competing demands on their time and cannot allocate appropriate time to family, spouses and even to themselves; this leads to complaints about exhaustion and lack of efficiency in their profession. Objective: To assess Psychological morbidity in interns, medical officers and residents Methods: a cross sectional study was conducted. A google form was designed with questions adopting from the three scales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS). Question from all three categories of MBI-GS such as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment were considered. The form was distributed via email and Whatsapp to 87 house officers, medical officers and residents of six public healthcare facilities in Lahore. Responses were captured from 73 participants who completed the General Health questionnaire. Seven of these forms were filled by nurses, so in the present study only the response ofthose 66 participants who conformed to the study cross-section were considered. The results were analyzedusing SPSS version 22 for descriptive statistics and chi-square association. Results: A significant association was found between long working hours and emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment questions in particular. The findings suggests long working hours ruin the mental health of medical professionals, which ultimately produce psychological health impacts. Conclusions: It was concluded that these factors should be considered to reduce psychological morbidity in health professionals.
This study aimed to identify the processes used by the principal of a private school in Karachi, Pakistan to motivate teachers for the accomplishment of the delegated tasks. The research focused on three major areas i.e. process of delegation; support provided in delegation and challenges occurring during the process of delegation. In the context of Pakistan, principals are mainly found as typically isolated with their positional powers. (Bahadur, 2010). This is one of the reasons when the tasks are delegated to the teachers; they are left with less support and perhaps no guidance. There are some significant literatures which illustrate that a school principal, as a distributed leader, plays a versatile role in developing a second line of leaders in the form of teacher leaders. This is mainly achieved by institutionalizing the process of delegating responsibilities to the teachers and motivating them to fulfill delegated responsibilities. With the aim and focus, this study is carried out within the paradigm of qualitative research and designed under the case study method. To obtain in-depth information and understand the facilitating factors for supporting teacher leaders to fulfill delegated responsibilities, data were collected through semi-structured interviews, observations and document analysis. The findings of this study have informed that the principal uses a structured process for selecting and delegating responsibilities to the teachers. Moreover, through support mechanism in the system principal also motivates teachers extrinsically and intrinsically to fulfill the delegated tasks. These mechanisms are strong communication system; empowerment; collaborative learning; capacity building; flexible work structure and trustworthiness. Furthermore, data have also highlighted some challenges like coordinators' turn over, lack of incentives and overloaded work which create hindrances in the process of delegation. Nevertheless, the efforts applied by the principal resulted in professional development of the teachers; building accountability and ownership among the teachers; sharing of responsibilities, creating future leader and improving teachers' performances.