TO IDENTIFY THE FACTORS OF STRESS MANAGEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS AMONGST NURSES

Authors

  • Ashfaq Siddiqui,Kamlesh Jain,Ashish Jain Infinity Assistant Professor Infinity institute of Management and Technology, Sagaur MP

Keywords:

inverse, satisfaction, comfort

Abstract

Stress is a well-known and identified problem within the nursing profession. Stress occurs when one is faced with events or encounters that they perceive as an endangerment to their physical or psychological well being. Additionally stress levels will increase when controllability and predictability in a situation decrease. There is an inverse relationship between stress and job satisfaction, as stress goes up, job satisfaction falls. As a result this increased stress could commonly results in decreased job satisfaction and decreased quality of life. This could potentially contribute to nurses leaving the profession and as an end consequence, account for the current nursing shortage. Nurses confront a range of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks in their roles providing care and comfort to the sick and aged. While much has been done to identify and control the physical risks associated with nursing work, such as manual handling, ergonomics, chemical and biological hazards, we have been less successful in recognizing the very real psychological risks encountered by nurses

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Feb 2014

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Published

2014-02-28

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014): FEBRUARY 2014

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