To measure the degree of work stress and identify factors influencing the stress among OR nurses, a study was implemented for 131 OR nurses working at four university hospitals in Taegu city through self administered questionnaires.
Mean score of to...
To measure the degree of work stress and identify factors influencing the stress among OR nurses, a study was implemented for 131 OR nurses working at four university hospitals in Taegu city through self administered questionnaires.
Mean score of total work stress of nurses was 3.71, when maximum score was 5. Relatively high degrees of work stress was evident among OR nurses.
When the related factors of the stress specified in the questionnaire were grouped into 11 categories, the repondents turned out to feel the highest stress when they were faced with the categories of non-peculiar duty and personal conflict with doctors.
The most stressful events were nursing malpractice during surgical operations and damage to OR equipments.
The nurses more susceptible to workstress were married with one child, less educated and worked at OR for 3 to 6 years.