Occupational Stress Among Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units in Public Hospitals of Khartoum State, Sudan 2016

Mohamedkheir, Randa Abdalla

doi:10.11648/j.ajhr.20160406.13

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“…This may be due to that beginner nurses during the first months of experience are lacking clinical experience and may forget the underpinning scientific knowledge, so they are in an urgent need for ICU senior staff guidance and support and are obeying senior colleagues' instruction without conflict. Our result is in line with Milutinovic et al, [5] Mohamedkheir et al [35] and Sarafis et al [14] who reported that death and dying was considered the most stressful situations. Yet, some other studies [37,38] reported nursing work conditions and lack of knowledgeable nurses as the most stressing factors.…”

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“…Mohamedkheir et al [35] documented that most of nurses experienced high level of occupational stress and that nurses' working experience had a significant effect on the overall nurses' stress level. Saini et al [36] reported that most of ICU nurses experienced moderate level of stress and that there was no significant relationship between stress level and nurses' gender, marital status, or experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Occupational stress and stressors experienced by the newly practicing nurses in intensive care units

Wareth

Eltaybani²

2018

JNEP

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Background and objective: Nurses working in critical care units face occupational stress particularly in the first six months of their practice; however, research on nurses’ perceived stress during this period is extremely limited. The aim of the study was to assess occupational stress and stressors experienced by the newly practicing nurses in intensive care units (ICUs).Methods: Design: A cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative research design. Settings: Four ICUs in a university hospital in Alexandria governorate, Egypt. Participants: A convenient sample of 100 intern nurses who had their first clinical work experience in ICU during the internship. Method: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative survey study conducted in four ICUs in Alexandria university hospital, Egypt. A questionnaire sheet consisting of two parts was used to collect data. Part one is the nursing stress scale and part two is the respondents’ socio-demographic and work-related data. Descriptive and bivariate statistical analyses were used to describe study variables and their associations.Results: All of the studied newly practicing nurses in ICUs experienced either moderate (43%) or high (57%) stress level. There are differences between the perceived stress reported by the studied nurses according to their characteristics (e.g., sex, marital status, having private work). These differences were not statistically significant. Death and dying, workload, and inadequate preparation are the top ranked stressors; average scores are 2.22, 2.20, and 2.13 respectively. In their first two months of experiences, nurses perceived inadequate preparation and death and dying as the highest stressors. This ranking differs among nurses with 3-4 months of experience and nurses with 5-6 months of experience.Conclusions and recommendations: Newly practicing nurses in ICUs face a significant level of stress. Death and dying, workload, and inadequate preparation are the top ranked stressors. Recommendations: Stress-management program must be initiated for new practicing nurses in ICU. Death and dying in ICU are highly needed topics to be embedded into nursing curriculum. Strategies to help graduate nurses cope must be implemented.

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Occupational stress and stressors experienced by the newly practicing nurses in intensive care units

Wareth

Eltaybani²

2018

JNEP

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“…Similarly, research conducted in Iran showed a lack of correlations at the level of the whole group between demographic factors (such as age, sex, education, work experience) and the level of work satisfaction, which was strongly related to stress levels [27]. Studies conducted in Sudan in public hospitals in Khartoum State [28] and in private and public hospitals in Amman, Jordan [29] showed that the psychosocial burden felt by nurses varied depending on the ward, similarly to our results. Research on work satisfaction among nurses in Great Britain also indicated the need to conduct analyses at the level of individual hospital departments [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors Determining Work Arduousness Levels among Nurses: Using the Example of Surgical, Medical Treatment, and Emergency Wards

Kowalczuk

Krajewska-Kułak

Sobolewski

2019

BioMed Research International

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Introduction. Staff shortages among nurses have been severely felt in most countries around the world for many years. In Poland, this problem is particularly visible due to the lowest nursing employment rate per 1000 inhabitants among 28 EU states and the high rate of leaving the profession. The average age of Polish nurses has been constantly growing for several years—in 2016 it was 50.79, while in 2008 it was 44.19. These data confirm that young nurses are the first to leave the profession. Diagnosis of the working conditions and psychosocial burden level among nurses should be subject to detailed analysis, so that leaving the profession will not additionally deepen the difficult staffing situation in health care. Aim. The aim of the study was to identify factors affecting the assessment of work arduousness levels among nursing personnel. Materials and Methods. The study was conducted among 573 nurses working on surgical, medical treatment, and emergency wards. A standardized job evaluation questionnaire was used to conduct the survey. Results. (1) Stress levels depended on the ward in which the surveyed person worked. Nurses working in the emergency ward assessed their conditions the best, with the lowest stress. The average general result in this group was 38.1 points versus 46 and 45.7 points in the surgical and medical treatment wards, respectively. (2) At the level of the whole studied group, both the nurses’ age and work experience did not differ statistically significantly in the total assessment of working conditions. Differences in the assessment of work arduousness in different age categories occurred at the level of individual wards. In the surgical ward, younger employees were characterized by higher stress levels, especially in the area of arduousness (p=0.0165). In the medical treatment wards, there was a similar age-to-stress ratio for the area of organizational uncertainty (p=0.0063). With age, employees of the emergency ward became more indifferent to stress related to unpleasant working conditions (p=0.0009), while stress related to organizational uncertainty increased (p=0.0495). (3) Nurses working in managerial positions assessed the overall stress related to their job higher than other nurses. They were particularly at risk for burdens related to haste, responsibility, and organizational uncertainty. The average overall assessment of work arduousness for this group was 44.6 points, while for surgical nurses it was 37.2 points. Correlations between the performed function and stress levels were found for almost all of the studied work characteristics (except for hazards). (4) Education had a statistically significant impact on the perception of working conditions in several dimensions. The people with the lowest education evaluated working conditions the best. The difference between people with a higher and those with a secondary education with a specialization was definitely smaller and often nonexistent. Education differentiated the work arduousness assessment depending on the ward. The most statistically significant correlations were obtained in surgical wards, and the least in medical treatment wards. Conclusions. (1) The study results indicate the need to diagnose problems related to work conditions in the context of occupational stress within individual hospital wards. To limit employee turnover, nursing staff managers should approach the issue of improving working conditions individually for each ward, due to differences in the nature of the work and level of stressogenicity. (2) In each hospital ward, employees at different stages of their career are sensitive to the psychosocial burden resulting from different work characteristics. These areas should be thoroughly diagnosed and the burden minimized to prevent departures from the profession—at early stages of the professional career as well as among experienced personnel. (3) Nurses working in managerial positions should receive the necessary substantive support, due to the higher stress burden associated with greater responsibility.

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“…Conflicts that occur in a person result in uncomfortable and depressed feelings. Previous research found the cause of nurses experiencing work stress was a conflict with work colleagues or supervisors (AbuRuz, 2014;Mohamedkheir, Amara, Balla, & Mohamed, 2016). According to researchers, the low work stress that occurs in Intensive Care Rooms and Quiet Inpatient Rooms is that there is no conflict with work colleagues or supervisors.…”

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The Differences of Nurses’ Work Stress in The Intensive Care Unit and Inpatient Room in A Psychiatric Hospital

Somantri¹,

Hernawaty²,

Multisari³

2019

JNC

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Inpatient room in a psychiatric hospital is divided into the acute (intensive) room and non-acute (inpatient) room. Several types of research showed different levels of work stress experienced by nurses in those rooms. The work stress is a form of individual response towards physical and psychological demand caused by the interaction of an individual to the working environment. This research aimed to know the difference in the work stress levels of nurses in psychiatric intensive care unit and inpatient room at a Psychiatric Hospital in West Java Province. This research used a comparative analytical design. The 104 samples were chosen through proportional random sampling technique. The data were collected through New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (New BJSQ) instrument containing 29 items. The technique of data analysis used was the Mann-Whitney test. The results showed that job stress levels of nurses in psychiatric intensive care unit and inpatient room were low with the median score 42 (SD=7.706 for the intensive care unit and in the inpatient room was 38 (SD=6.167). The results of the Mann-Whitney test found p-value (0.047) < 0,.5. In conclusion, there is a bit different in the job stress level of nurses in psychiatric intensive care unit and inpatient room. Maintaining the mechanism of adaptive coping, adding the number of nurses, and the policy regarding nurse room rotation schedules would be solutions to overcome with work stress.

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Occupational Stress Among Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units in Public Hospitals of Khartoum State, Sudan 2016

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

Occupational stress and stressors experienced by the newly practicing nurses in intensive care units

Occupational stress and stressors experienced by the newly practicing nurses in intensive care units

Factors Determining Work Arduousness Levels among Nurses: Using the Example of Surgical, Medical Treatment, and Emergency Wards

The Differences of Nurses’ Work Stress in The Intensive Care Unit and Inpatient Room in A Psychiatric Hospital

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