Introduction: Job stress can be interpreted as a demand or stressor that can cause a complaint or stress caused by work. This study was conducted to know the difference of job stress that happened at Emergency Room and inpatient ward at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar. Method: This study used cross sectional analytic design and the data was analyze from the job stress questionnaire that was validated. Questionnaires were given to nurses that working in the emergency room and inpatient ward at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar. The samples size is 116 subjects. Result: The result is 7 nurses at the emergency room (12.1%) and 29 inpatients (50%) had mild stress, 33 ER nurses (56.9%) and 25 inpatients (43.1%) experienced moderate stress meanwhile, at 18 ER nurses (31%) and 4 inpatients (6.9%) had severe stress. Based on statistical test to find out the difference of work stress using Mann-Whitney test, the result of Mann-Whitney U value is 841.0 and p value is 0.000. So it can be concluded that p value <0.05. Conclusion: Thus, there is a significant difference in the level of work stress between nurses who served in the emergency room with inpatient care.
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