Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)

Nurses required a highly, demanding skills such as teamwork in different situations, dealing with sick and dying, delivering care and be responsibility for the patients round the clock, and shift work (Meyer & Allen, 1997). Besides, high workload, nurse shortage, lack of support and conflict in values with other healthcare professions are most commonly reported and have been underscored to be one of the major factors of stressors proposed in the nursing profession which may affect nurses’ decision to quit the profession (Khamisa, Peltzer, & Oldenburg, 2013). Job stress in nursing has contribute to an “ubiquitous threat” whereby it constantly, extensively affect the physio-psychological well being of nurses and the standard of nursing care. National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2013; cited by Jennings, 2008 claimed that prolonged exposure to work-related stress is associated with burnout. Work stressors also anticipated with low job satisfaction, organisation inefficiency, excessive staff turnover and absenteeism due to staff falling sick (Borda & Norman, 1997; Clegg, 2001; Kirkcaldy & Martin, 2000). As compare to other professional groups, study has revealed that nursing profession often perceive as one of the “highly mobile occupational group” and has a much greater turnover rate (Yao,

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nursing is the nation’s largest healthcare profession. Registered Nurses who work in the emergency room should be required to be psychologically evaluated in their position because they handle stressful situations. In addition, they witness a numerous amount of traumatic events such as deaths and major body deformations. Therefore, these events can cause personal issues over a long period of time, such as emotional, physical, and psychological actions that scars nurses throughout their profession.

Stress and fatigue are related to the type of work that nurses do, and it directly affects a their health. Occupational stress can have harmful effects on nurses’ health. Short-term stress can lead to disorders such as “chronic fatigue to depression” (Donovan et al., 2013, p. 969). Long-term stress can lead to psychological issues and increases the likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, drinking, poor diet and little to no exercise. New nurses are especially susceptible to experiencing stress and fatigue as they get adjusted to the demands of the job.

According to the data from Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions (2013), there were 2.8 million Registered Nurses (RNs) and 690,000 Licensed Practice Nurses (LPNs) were working in the period from 2008-2010, in the United States. The nursing workforce grew substantially in 2000s, by RNs growing by more than 24.1 percent and LPNs by more than 15.5 percent. The population of nurses are facing multiple challenges at the workplace, such as shortage in staffing, nurse turnover, increased workload, long working hours, poor relationship with co-workers, lack of support from the management, and eventually these challenges create high level of nurse burnout. It is estimated that job- related burnout measure using the Maslach Burnout inventory – Human Services Survey, 36.5 % of nurses having high level of burnout. The researchers at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Nursing, estimates if nurse burnout reduces by 10 %, could prevent thousands of hospital acquired infections and reduce the health care expense (Potera, 2012).

According to Maslach and Jackson (1981), nurse burnout is the feeling of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of personal accomplishment, particularly when caring for others in the line of work. Work stressors and burnout often lead to turnover, the inability for institutions to retain their staff, either due to transfer and resignation (Gray-Toft & Anderson, 1981). Unfortunately, not only does this risk patients’ quality of care and provoke costly turnover expenses for institutions, but it causes nurses to endure the brunt of its effects. The mental wellness of acute care nurses working in a hospital setting is often compromised as their duties and responsibilities have increased significantly throughout the years while patient

Burnout syndrome is common in the healthcare field. Burnout syndrome has been research by many, many of the research has been geared towards nurses to determine how prevalent burnout syndrome is. Emergency care nurses face vast challenges related to the care that is demanded by the patient. The amount of stressors and burnout syndrome are linked, the more stressors the nurse is exposed to the higher the risk for burnout syndrome becomes. Burnout syndrome has an adverse effect on the organization, the nurse, and the patient. The question to be answered by this review of research is, In emergency care nursing, are the rates of burnout and fatigue higher than those of other types of nursing?

This essay is to recognize the important factors with burnout in the nursing profession. The effects of burnout result in concerns with the nurses personally and professionally, the patient care that they provide, along with the consequences that have followed in the healthcare system. Nurses are most subject to developing burnout due to the nature and emotional demands of their job. The most significant consequences are the nursing shortage and a decrease in the quality of patient care. Insights of job dissatisfaction, stress, and burnout among nurses are provided. Information of the most common risk factors for burnout can help nurses alter their personal and professional lifestyles. Suggestions are given for ways the healthcare organization

The purpose of this research is to determine the amount and type of stress that critical care nurses experience as a result of their day-to-day work environment. If nurses and other healthcare professionals are able to determine stressors in the work environment they arise. This study is also aimed at determine effective coping skills used by critical care nurses to help manage stress. The identification of effective coping skills may be useful to other healthcare workers to help them manage stress. Other phenomena explored include the amount of stress and the relation to burnout among critical care nurses. Which in turn may decrease the efficacy of patient care? Gillespie and Melby (2003) recognized that “stress and burnout have far reaching

Health care careers like nursing are meant to be all about taking care of the ill and the hurt, to show compassion to others that need medical care. Nurses go into their career because of their passion to help and heal the sick. Although nurses are compassionate caregivers, they also cope with a variety of workplace stressors, many of which can lead them to demonstrate less than effective emotional responses at any given time (Littlejohn). There needs to be a substantial change to prevent these stressors from causing such a burnout in the nursing field such as adding more staff to help, to the prevention of the older nurses bullying the younger incoming nurses.

Truly, nurses have to face with life and dying on the daily basis, so there will be a stressful event when a nurse has seen nurse’s patients gone away. The 35.9% of nurses are stressed due to watching patient suffered (Dr.Rawal, 2014).

Nursing is generally perceived as a very demanding profession. Along with the increased demand and progress in the nursing profession, there has also been an increase in stress levels of nurses who usually experience

Table 11 revealed that marital strain was not dependent on the duration of overtime spent at the hospitals. The reason may be that overtime was not the problem on regular basis. It depends upon the emergencies occurred at the hospital. The need of professional, skilled nurses will increase as the population ages while the shortage of nurses is the reality already. Nurses are stressed further by inconvenient working hours like extensive working hours, weekend work, evening and night-time work, insufficient breaks during working shift, and even having to take on two jobs in order to make reasonable pay. Stress experienced in the field of nursing is on the increase even though work-related strain in other fields is

This study was conducted in the intensive care units of Alexandria Main University hospital namely: The casualty care unit (unit I), General ICU (unit III), Post surgeries ICU, Coronary care unit, Open heart surgery ICU, Respiratory ICU

In America and around the world being a nurse is a stressful job. Too much or continued stress can give rise to anxiety, fatigue and even ill health for the individual (Wright, 2014). Working in the nursing environment can expose employees to numerous stressful situations, demands, and pressures, causing a host of health, and safety problems not only for the nurse, but also for their patients. This is why it is important to identify, why nurses are becoming stressed, the consequences of these stressors, and how to effectively apply stress management strategies to reduce work related stress.

The present study makes a number of original contributions to the existing body of knowledge and provides some direction for research and practice. This study has developed and tested new scales to measure workplace stress and coping in context of nursing workplace.