Stress Management In Nursing

Stress management involves controlling and reducing the tension that occurs in stressful situation by making emotional and physical changes. The degree of stress and the desire to make changes will determine how much changes takes places. Its goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to use it. The key component in stress management is all about striking a balance. What we need to do is to find the optimal level of stress, which will individually motive us.

A recent survey showed that 70-90 percent of people feel stressed at work and outside. Today’s fast paced work life is putting the toll. In organization, today, employee stress is of great concern, people employed in organizations are stressed out from workloads

According to Atkinson stress occurs when one is faced with events and encounters that they perceive as an endangerment to their physical or psychological wellbeing. Accordingly stress levels will i8ncrease when controllability and predictability in a stress situation decreases. There is an inverse relationship between stress and job satisfaction, as stress goes up, job satisfaction falls. As a result this increase stress could commonly result in decreased job satisfaction and decreased quality of work life. This could potentially contribute to nurse leaving the profession and so as an end consequence, account for the current nursing

Included in these stressors are intense work environments with extended work hours, weekends, night and holidays. Stress could be related to variables of shifts works, which is both physically and mentally taxing. This study also found varying degrees of depression in nurses and paramedics ranging from mild to severe. Finally this study revealed that nurses were indifferent and disconnected to the job any feeling neither satisfies nor unsatisfied with the work. Results such as these expose how large a problem stress is for the profession of nursing and