Occupational Stress in Intensive Care Units Nurses: A Cross-sectional Study

Torkaman, Mahya; Heydari, Naval; Kamali, Maryam; Fadaei, Mohammad Hosein

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“…This study was conducted in three hospitals (Bahonar Hospital, Shafa Hospital, and Afzalipour Hospital) affiliated with the Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Each hospital has five ICUs (i.e., Covid-19, poisoning, internal wards (1 and 2), and neurology department) with a total number of 192 staff [ 22 ]. This study was conducted from March 2021 to January 2022.…”

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Nurses’ perceptions of critically ill patients’ eye care: a qualitative study in Iran

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Background Despite the high prevalence of ocular complications in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), eye care, as an important component of the care plan, has not received much attention from nurses. To improve the quality of eye care, the challenges and concerns of ICU nurses should be studied deeply. Thus, the present study aimed at exploring the challenges faced by ICU nurses in taking care of patients admitted to the ICU. Methods The present conventional qualitative content analysis study was carried out on 11 nurses and 3 head nurses selected purposefully by observing the maximum variation. The data were collected through face-to-face, in-depth, and semi-structured interviews. All data were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the conventional content analysis method proposed by Graneheim and Lundman (Nurse Educ Today 24:105–12, 2004). The Max Q Data software 2020 was run to record the interviews and extract codes from the transcriptions. Results The participants’ mean age was 37.14 ± 6.41 years and their average work experience in ICU was 10.29 ± 7.63 years. The core category that emerged from data analysis was “the lack of an evidence-based approach”, which was subdivided into five categories: “education, the missing link”, “nurses’ inadequate professional competence”, “unsafe nursing care”, “organizational requirements”, and “difficulty in eye care evaluation”. Conclusion Evidence-based practice plays a minor role in the field of eye care in Iran, despite its critical importance. Thus, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran is recommended to adapt the clinical guidelines so that more attention is paid to this field.

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“…Nouroozi Kushali et al (2013) reported ICU nurses' levels of stress, anxiety and depression as 33, 33.9, and 30.8%, respectively. Torkaman et al (2019) describe this intensity from moderate to severe. If this stress is ignored, it will cause many problems for nurses, such as sleep disorders, digestive disorders, general health decline, decreased functioning, reduced quality of care, job burnout, and leaving the job (Poursadeghiyan et al, 2017).…”

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“…Also, people with high work stress are more likely to have work accidents (Moayed et al, 2015). Despite the fact that nursing itself is stressful, in some wards, this stress is even multiplied (Torkaman et al, 2019). Close observation of health care conflicts, patients' pain and suffering, delays in clinical decision-making for end-of-life patients, and the inappropriate use of medical resources expose ICU nurses to the highest level of occupational stress (Torkaman et al, 2019).…”

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“…Despite the fact that nursing itself is stressful, in some wards, this stress is even multiplied (Torkaman et al, 2019). Close observation of health care conflicts, patients' pain and suffering, delays in clinical decision-making for end-of-life patients, and the inappropriate use of medical resources expose ICU nurses to the highest level of occupational stress (Torkaman et al, 2019). Nouroozi Kushali et al (2013) reported ICU nurses' levels of stress, anxiety and depression as 33, 33.9, and 30.8%, respectively.…”

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Investigating the impact of written emotion disclosure on the level of occupational stress among intensive care nurses

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Jahani³

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ObjectiveThe present study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of rewriting pleasant events on the level of occupational stress in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses.MethodsThis is a quasi-experimental research conducted on nurses working in the intensive care units of Imam Khomeini and Golestan hospitals in Ahvaz, from July to November 2021. Seventy-six nurses were selected based on the inclusion criteria, and were then randomly assigned to the intervention and the control groups. The nurses’ demographic information form and the Expanded Nursing Stress Scale (ENSS) were used to collect data. In the intervention group, the technique of rewriting pleasant events was used for 8 weeks, at least once a week. The data was analyzed with SPSS V20.ResultsNo significant difference in the demographic characteristics was observed between the intervention and the control groups (p > 0.05). The pre-intervention occupational stress of the nurses in the intervention and the control groups were reported to be 173.86 ± 26.75 and 173.05 ± 24.47, respectively, showing no statistically significant difference (p = 0.89). After the intervention, the occupational stress scores were 134.21 ± 16.09 and 172.36 ± 24.33, respectively, showing a significant difference between the two groups (p < 0.001).ConclusionConsidering the impact of rewriting pleasant events on the level of occupational stress of ICU nurses, it is recommended that nursing managers and nurses plan training programs for nurses in this area, and encourage other nurses to do so, too. It is also suggested to implement this intervention on the nurses of other wards as well.

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Occupational Stress in Intensive Care Units Nurses: A Cross-sectional Study

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Nurses’ perceptions of critically ill patients’ eye care: a qualitative study in Iran

Nurses’ perceptions of critically ill patients’ eye care: a qualitative study in Iran

Investigating the impact of written emotion disclosure on the level of occupational stress among intensive care nurses

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