The Nurse and Job Related Stress: Responses, Rx, and Self-Dependency

Lawrence, Rena M.; Lawrence, Sally A.

doi:10.1111/j.1744-6198.1987.tb00798.x

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“…Concerning the subsection relating to strategies used to reduce role stress, 11 strategies were identified from the literature (Folkman & Lazarus, 1980; Hobbs, 1985; Dewe, 1987; Lawrence & Lawrence, 1988; Scalzi, 1988). The items are listed in .…”

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Role stress and role ambiguity in new nursing graduates in Australia

Chang

Hancock

2003

Nursing & Health Sciences

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The first few months of nursing have the potential to be the most challenging and stressful for new nursing graduates. The purpose of the present study was to examine sources of, and changes in, role stress 2-3 months after employment, and 11-12 months later in new graduate nurses. This study also investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and role stress. A factor analysis demonstrated that role ambiguity was the most salient feature of role stress in the first few months, while 10 months later, role overload was the most important factor explaining variance in role stress scores. There was no significant change in role stress scores over time. For the first survey, job satisfaction was significantly negatively correlated with role ambiguity and role stress. In the second survey there was still a significant negative correlation between role ambiguity and job satisfaction, but no significant correlation between role overload and job satisfaction. The findings are discussed in terms of implications for nursing education, practice and future research.

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Role stress and role ambiguity in new nursing graduates in Australia

Chang

Hancock

2003

Nursing & Health Sciences

195

157

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“…They interpret each minor angina attack as life-threatening. But their most severe maladaption is the over-stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system which is generated by intense feelings of helplessness and hopelessness (Lawrence and Lawrence, 1987).…”

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Helping Patients Cope with the Stress of Myocardial Infarction

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Lawrence²

1988

Nursing Forum

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The victims of myocardial infarction pose a real challenge to nursing. Effective nursing intervention is based on an understanding of human responses to the stress of heart disease and the series of behavioral changes individuals undergo in an attempt to cope with the stress. Cardiac teaching is an essential aspect of this intervention. After a myocardial infarction, patients first go through two stages on the way to recovery--independency and dependency--before they are receptive to teaching. It is during the next two stages--interdependency and self-dependency--that nurses can use specific behavioral changes of the patients to plan health teaching and to negotiate contracts with them to effect learning and permanent behavioral change.

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“…It is now being linked to negative patient outcomes (Williams, McMurray, Baier-Manwell, Schwartz, & Linzer, 2007). Hospital nursing work is associated with high levels of burnout and WRS (Hertel, 2009; Lawrence & Lawrence, 1987; McNeely, 2005; Ross, Jones, Callaghan, Eales, & Ashman, 2009; Wheeler, 1997). WRS has also been found to be a major factor in decreased job satisfaction levels among nurses (Blegen, 1993; Zangaro & Soeken, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%