Faculty of Management Sciences International Islamic University H-10, Islamabad

QUESTIONNAIRE:
We are students of faculty of management sciences International Islamic University Islamabad. Our research project is; Antecedents of occupational stress in Nurses of public sector hospitals in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. We need the following information for our project from you. The information provided will be used for academic purpose only.

1: Age: ____________

2: Gender: Male ( ) Female ( )

3: Name of Hospital: ____________

4: No. of units supervised __________ 5: No. of working Hours _____________________ 6: education (last qualification) __________________ 1 Strongly Disagree 2 Disagree 3 Neutral 4 Agree 5 Strongly Agree

No. WORK LOAD 1 2 3 4 5 I am expected to do more work than is reasonable My job requires me to work in several equally important areas at once. When faced with several tasks I know which should be done first I have more than one person telling me what to do I am uncertain about what I am supposed to accomplish in my work TIME PRESSURE 6 At work I am expected to do too many different tasks in too little time.

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I have so much work to do that everything cannot be done well by me on time. I am satisfied with working hours I cannot complete work with in duty hours I have constant time pressure due to heavy workload TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION

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I am expected to perform tasks on my job which I have never been trained In my opinion keeping up with new developments, in order to maintain professional competence is stressful I always Fear that a mistake will be made in the treatment of a patient I Lack specialized training for the present task I am Not familiar to operate medical apparatus

SOCIAL SUPPORT(family) 16 17 18 19 20 I have less time to share feeling and spend time with family I have job duties which conflict with familys responsibilities which is stressful for me. I have emotional support provided by my family for my work I receive full support from my family. My Family helps to do things to make my work life easier. WORK ENVIRONMENT 21 22 I have the resources I need to get my job done I am work with enough staff that helpful in my work

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I am provided with respectful and cooperative environment. I am satisfied with my working environment. In my opinion my physical work conditions are appropriate OCCUPATIONAL STRESS

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I feel stress when caught between large groups of patients at work. I feel stress in handling patients, doctors orders and my own duties at one time. I am always stressed during my working hours I mostly face health problems due to work stress. I am feeling stress in dealing with difficult/demanding situation.

References
Rebecca Spooner-lane (July2044) The influence of work stress in work support on burn out in public hospital nurses July 2004 school of learning professional studies faculty of education Queensland University of Technology Available on website URL:http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15975/1/Rebecca_Spooner-Lane_Thesis.pdf Sandra Louise Paisaniello (Jan 2010) Emotion Labour, Emotion Work and Occupational Stress in Nurses, Thesis, School of Phycology, University of Adelaide, Published on Janury 2010 Available on website URL:http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/6233 Maria R.Shirey (Jan 2009) Stress and Coping in Nurse Managers: A Qualitative Discription,Thesis for doctor of Philosophy in the school of nursing Indiana University, January 2009 Available on website URL:https://seholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstrem/.handle/1805/1866/MRShirey%20Dissertati on%20PDF%20E%20090106%20Rev%20ii.pdf?sequence=1

Andrewsmith,Sarbgit Johal and Emma Wadsworth(2000) The Scale of Occupational Stress

Social Support, Work-Family Enrichment and Life Satisfaction among Married Nurses in Health Service Wan Edura Wan Rashid, Mohamad Sahari Nordin, Azura Omar, and Izhairi Ismail http://www.ijssh.org/papers/26-S10042.pdf