The first few months of nursing have the potential to be the most challenging and stressful for new nursing graduates. The purpose of the present study was to examine sources of, and changes in, role stress 2-3 months after employment, and 11-12 months later in new graduate nurses. This study also investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and role stress. A factor analysis demonstr...

BACKGROUND College students are prone to stress due to the transitional nature of college life. High levels of stress are believed to affect students' health and academic functions. If the stress is not dealt with effectively, feelings of loneliness, nervousness, sleeplessness and worrying may result. Effective coping strategies facilitate the return to a balanced state, reducing the negative e...

background: studies have shown that nurses are under considerable job stress, which can lead to health disorders and failure in duties. stressors of nursing have been studied in some of quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the nurses’ life experiences in this regard. the current qualitative research aimed to understand the nurses’ experiences and perceptions of job-re...

background: occupational stress is one of the most important occupational hazards in modern life which could lead to decrease in productivity, work absence, workforce transfer and high costs for the personnel. american national association for occupational safety has placed nursing at the top of the list of the first forty high-stress jobs. there are various factors known as stressors in nursin...

BACKGROUND Stress has been defined as a barrier to concentration, problem solving, decision making, and other necessary abilities for students' learning; it also has some symptoms and illnesses in the students such as depression and anxiety. In reviewing stress and its consequences, the methods of coping with stress in the method of response to it would be more important than the nature of stre...

Objective: To evaluate nursing workload in an adult intensive care unit (ICU), and to describe the profile of patients admitted to that unit. Methods: A descriptive study using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) for 33 days in an ICU with a capacity of 18 beds. Results: 574 observations were obtained from the registry of 107 patients, and the mean NAS score was 62.2%. Conclusion: The NAS is in ...

abstract background : occupational stress is a recognized problem in health care workers .nursing has been identified as an occupation that has high levels of stress. this study aimed to investigate the sources of job stress and the adopted coping strategies of nurses who were working in accident and emergency department. methods : in this descriptive survey ninety emergency ward nurses from th...

Stress and self-esteem are common issues that everyone has to cope with at some time in their lives and they could also affect other things going on in a persons' life. Academic stress is psychological condition often experienced by college students as, to some extent, being multidimensional variables. Among others are self-esteem and psychological well-being which are considered to have influe...

This integrative literature review aimed to identify nursing actions for stimulating child development in national and international journals, between 2000 and 2009. Medline and Lilacs were examined, with analysis of fifteen articles. Results point out ludic elements as essential for child development and state that it should be explored by nursing professionals through art, music, toys and the...