Measuring Occupational Stress of Nurses in Private Hospitals

Abstract

Occupational stress happens when a job’s requirements aren’t met by the employee’s resources, skills, or needs. This can make you feel bad and make your body feel bad in the working environment. In the past decades, it has been brought up as a big problem over and over again. Some people say that being a nurse is one of the most stressful occupations. When nurses are stressed and depressed, it impacts how they and their organizations work, as well as the care they give. There are a lot of things at work that can make nurses feel stressed. Some of these stressors are about the person, while others are about the workplace, the way the organization is set up, or how they talk to service users. The major objective of this study is to measure the level of stress among nurses who are working in private hospitals. The expanded nursing stress scale is being used in this study to measure how stressed out the nurses are. The nurses who work in private hospitals in Tirunelveli were asked to fill out the structured questionnaire. For the study, 120 nurses who work in private hospitals were chosen at random to find out how stressed they are. This study found that nurses are stressed at work due to death of patients, problems with their peers and supervisors and workload.

Keywords: Stress, Occupational Stress, Nurses, Healthcare, ENSS, Hospitals

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