A comparison of frequency and sources of nursing job stress perceived by intensive care, hospice and medical‐surgical nurses
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Vol. 15 (5), 577-584
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01857.x
Abstract
This study compared the frequency and sources of nursing job stress perceived by 35 intensive care (ICU), 30 hospice and 73 medical-surgical nurses Analysis of variance revealed no significant differences among the three groups of nurses on the overall frequency of job stress Post-hoc Tukey tests demonstrated a significant difference in three stress subscales among the three groups ICU and hospice nurses perceived significantly more stress than medical-surgical nurses related to death and dying, ICU and medical-surgical nurses perceived significantly more stress than hospice nurses related to floating, and medical-surgical nurses perceived significantly more stress than ICU and hospice nurses related to work-overload/staffing Spearman-Rank Correlation revealed no significant correlations among the three groups in their rank-ordering of the eight stress subscales Death and dying situations were the most stressful to ICU and hospice nurses, while work-overload/staffing situations were the most stressful to medical-surgical nurses Results of the study, although not generalizable, have implications for nurse managersKeywords
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