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occupational stress and its influencing factors: A qualitative study. Iranian Journal of Nursing
This qualitative study was performed using the content analysis method. The study
demonstrated that nurses face occupational stress that leads to failure in duties and health
disorders. The research has shown that nursing stressors have been studied in some qualitative
studies; but nurses life experiences have been explored by few researchers. This qualitative
research intended to understand the nurses perceptions and experiences of job-related stress. By
employing the content analysis method as stated above, the data collection method used were
individual deep interviews with respondents being 19 nurses working in hospitals associated with
prioritizing career over family life, and the job stress. The first group included some
experience, social status and self-esteem, the patients conditions lack of appropriate
logistics, organizational irregularities, and adverse relations among colleagues affect the
The research concluded that nurses defined work-related stress as a condition whereby a
nurse pressured so the quality of care and the nurses personal life is disturbed. Being under
constant pressure and low social self-esteem were some of the significant sources of
occupational stress. Good management within hospital subsystems, provision of proper logistics,
and improvement of the nurses and managers relationships may lessen the nursing profession
Akbar R.E., Elahi N, Mohammadi E., & Khoshknab M.F. (2016). What Strategies Do the Nurses
Apply to Cope With Job Stress?: A Qualitative Study. Global Journal of Health Science.
8(6):55-64. doi:10.5539/gjhs.v8n6p55.
Nursing staff encounter a lot of psychological, social, and physical social stressors at work.
Because the adverse effects of job stress on the health of this group of staff and afterward on the
quality of care services offered by nurses; study and ascertain how nurses cope with the job
stress during work is fundamental and can help prevent the incidence of unfavorable outcomes.
The focus of the research study is occupational stress among nurses working in emergency care.
The main objective of the research study was to explore the nurses experiences to identify the
strategies they used to manage and cope with the job stress.
In this qualitative study purposive sampling and content analysis approach was used. The
sample population included 18 nurses working in three hospitals. The data collection method was
conducted through face to face unstructured interview and was analyzed using conventional
content analysis approach. Results of the analysis indicated the data emerged six key themes on
the strategies used by nurses to manage and cope with job stress, which, include: seeking help,
coping, and avoidance and escape. The study expands the scope by explaining how each factor
plays a role in affecting how nurses perform and the challenges that come about in their
Occupational stress is one of the key factors that motivates how workers react to other
challenges they encounter besides having to deliver on their roles in the workplace. Exploring
nurses experiences on how to cope with job stress emerged original strategies and context-
dependent and this knowledge can pave the way for nurses to increase self-awareness of how to
manage and cope with job stress. And could also be the foundation for planning and the
embracing of necessary measures by the authorities to acclimatize nurses with their profession
better and improves their social, physical, and psychological health which are vital elements to
fulfill high-quality nursing care. There were no possible shortcomings and bias in the study.
Ali Mohammad, M. (2013). Occupational Stress and Turnover intention: Implications for
Nursing Management. International Journal for Health Policy Management. 1(2), 169-176.
The research was conducted to investigate the levels of occupational stress amongst
hospital nurses in Isfahan, Iran. Occupational stress among nurses has been investigated overtime
because researchers have attempted to base based on the previous studies. Occupational stress is
prevalent in the workplace for nurses in the hospital setting, according to this research. It is
proved that a particular stress level is important to assuring that people do better in their work.
Notably, this study also sought to explore the correlation between their intent to leave the
hospital and occupational stress. The research was cross-sectional in nature whereby a
questionnaire was used as the data collection tool to collect data from 296 nurses.
The results indicated that nurses encounter challenges in their workplace and as a result
their levels of motivation are greatly affected by the nature of challenges they come across. A
third of the respondents rated their occupational stress high with the major sources of stress
being burnout, work overload, work inequality, lack of promotion, low pay, staff shortage, and
lack of management support. Higher levels of stress became accountable for low motivation of
nurses while the resulting burnout was believed to be as a result of duties they carryout daily.
The study indicated that hospital managers should come up with suitable strategies and policies
to decrease occupational stress and as a result nurses retention. There were no possible
Ketelaar S.M., Nieuwenhuijsen K, Frings-Dresen M.H.W., & Sluiter J.K. (2015). Exploring
novice nurses needs regarding their work-related health: a qualitative study. International
1022-5.
This qualitative study sought to investigate Dutch novice nurses experiences and needs
concerning occupational health support to check work-related health problems and to keep them
well-functioning. The methodology used was a qualitative interview study which was conducted
with eight newly qualified nurses and six nursing students. The interviews covered occupational
health support needs, nurses experiences with the link between health and work, and received
occupational health support. The grounded theory approach was used in data were analysis.
problems early in their career and defined experiences with how health problems lead to
suboptimal work functioning. Occupational health support needs psychosocial support and
included knowledge during nursing education, for example, through career counseling and
paying attention to dealing with shift work. Also, the nurses reported a need for psychosocial
support and knowledge at the start of their new job in the hospital or clinical placement.
Additionally, the nurses reported that occupational health support requires a more general place
at work through offering knowledge, by giving advice on psychosocial support, physical support,
Occupational health support for novice nurses is vital, since they already experience
occupational health problems and suboptimal work functioning due to health problems early in
their career and while still in training to be a nurse. Novice nurses should be given more
knowledge and support to help them stay healthy and well-functioning in their work. This is a
joint responsibility of nurse educators, the employer and occupational health services.