Stress In Nursing
1.10 SIGNIFICANT OF THE RESEARCH STUDY Stress is a part of everyday life for health professionals such as nurse’s physicians and hospital administrators. Review of literature has revealed that there are various factors responsible for stress among nurses working in hospital areas. Role workload, role ambiguity, role conflict, group and political pressures, responsibility for persons, under participation, powerlessness, poor peer relations, intrinsic impoverishment, low status, strenuous working conditions, unprofitability of learning on job and inappropriate feedback to be significant predictors of occupational stress among nurses. Nurses with high levels of personal accomplishment perceived a significantly lesser degree of stress. Nurses
are usually made responsible for non-nursing activities, which cause extra burden of work on them. Occupational stress is a major health problem for both individual employees & organizations and can lead to job dissatisfaction, illness, labour turnover, absence in work performances and poor patient care..
are usually made responsible for non-nursing activities, which cause extra burden of work on them. Occupational stress is a major health problem for both individual employees & organizations and can lead to job dissatisfaction, illness, labour turnover, absence in work performances and poor patient care..