Nurses' Stress Management at Work

Abstract

Relevance of the study. Different authors analyzed stress impact on human psychological health. It is distinguished, that it could be the contributing factor to different psychological diseases. Stress makes impact in different professions, but nurses job, we could say, is one of mostly affected by stress impact. Solving this stress impact problem for nurses, important to find what causes stress for nurses and solutions how to reduce stress impact in nursing work analyzing different stress impact models and making research asking nurses what causes stress to them in their work. Stress impact on psychosocial health of nurses could be solved finding solutions how nurses could control stress and that way not let it make impact on their psychological health. It would help to make important conclusions in stress impact on people, specially, in nursing. Aim of the study. To evaluate key factors that causes stress for the nurses at work. Objectives of the study. 1. To define sources of the stress and stress management measures. 2. To analyze different models of stress management in nursing. 3. To find out the main reasons for high stress levels for the nurses in two selected outpatient private family clinics. 4. To evaluate various stress triggers in different age groups of the nurses in two selected outpatient private family clinics Research methods. Scientific literature analysis. With non-probabilistic purposive sampling 50 nurses who work in two different private family ambulatory care clinics have been questioned by using semi structured type questionnaires. For statistical data analysis were used “Excel” program. Conclusions. Based on the literature review data it is safe to say that work related stress is a common phenomenon. Due to increased workload, nature of the work itself, it is not surprising that nurses experience more work related stress as for comparison to other profession staff. This research unshielded that, in Lithuania nurses experience elevated levels of stress and it is related to few main reasons – workload, also patients that are assigned to them by the doctors for the immediate care without appropriate wait in the queue. As a result, nurses while trying to cope with everything are unable to organize efficiently their work and rest times. Study concluded that, inexperienced nurses felt high stress levels once left alone and the prime reason was that they were not as confided of performing all of the procedures independently.