Stress factors in the work of nurses

Abstract

Abstract:Being a nurse is amongst one of the toughest professions. It is a profession in which the nurse will be in contact with different kinds of stress factors. There are often encounters with death, suffering, as well as dying and terminally ill patients. Nurses must be able to communicate with patients who react differently to illness and hospitalization and those patients who can even cause conflicts. In addition to the direct workloads regarding this range of problems there are also bad relationships in the workplace and difficulties in everyday life. There is also the need for continuous training and learning of new skills. The influence of all these factors can lead the nurse into difficult situations in life -such as excessive stress. The aim of this research was to determine stress factors that influence the work of nurses in outpatient and inpatient wards.

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

“…Nurses who work in Psychiatric hospitals according to the study of Abdullah and Abbas (2015) found male and female nurses would experience work stress. A study explained that nurses working in Psychiatric hospitals experience moderate levels of work stress (Hasan, 2017), and inpatient rooms for mental patients are the rooms that have the highest level of work stress on nurses compared to other rooms (Konzon & Zacharova, 2016;Totman, Hundt, Wearn, Paul, & Johnson, 2011). Another study conducted in the inpatient unit of the Regional Psychiatric hospital of North Sumatra Province explained that nurses working in inpatient units experienced work stress (Ulfah, 2011).…”