The nurses’ occupational stress components and outcomes, findings from an integrative review

Okuhara, Mihoka; Sato, Kana; Kodama, Yoshihiko

doi:10.1002/nop2.780

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“…Moreover, 80% of the work is placed on the shoulders of nurses [11] . The occupational stress faced by nurses is likely to change due to massive changes in the environment, including the Coronavirus epidemic [12] . Health staff working in services such as the Emergency Department (ED) and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are one of the vital assets of each country in case of critical cases such as the pandemic of COVID-19 [13] .…”

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Occupational stress and its relationship with spiritual coping among emergency department nurses and emergency medical services staff

Mirzaei

Mozaffari

Soola

2022

International Emergency Nursing

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Occupational stress and its relationship with spiritual coping among emergency department nurses and emergency medical services staff

Mirzaei

Mozaffari

Soola

2022

International Emergency Nursing

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“…Nurses’ stress has been investigated in many studies [ 45 ]. Researchers have shown that even in ordinary times (i.e., without a pandemic) nurses face many sources of stress resulting from their workload or patient-related issues, which affects their QoL [ 11 , 46 , 47 ].…”

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Protective Factors and Coping Styles Associated with Quality of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Hospital or Care Institution and Private Practice Nurses

Jubin

Delmas

Gilles³

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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In France, nurses work either in hospitals and care institutions or in private practice, following physicians’ prescriptions and taking care of patients at their homes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these populations of nurses were exposed to numerous sources of stress. The main objective of the present study was to identify the protective factors they mobilized to face the crisis and how these factors contributed to sustaining their quality of life (QoL). A cross-sectional study was conducted to answer these questions. Overall, 9898 French nurses participated in the study, providing demographic information and filling out QoL (WHOQOL-BREF), perceived stress (PSS-14), resilience (CD-RISC), social support (MSPSS), and coping style (BRIEF-COPE) questionnaires. The results revealed very few differences between the two groups of nurses, which is surprising given the drastically different contexts in which they practice. Social support and two coping strategies (positive reframing and acceptance) were associated with a high QoL, whereas perceived stress and four coping strategies (denial, blaming self, substance use, and behavioral disengagement) were associated with poor QoL. In the light of these results, we recommended promoting social support and coping strategies to help nurses cope during the pandemic.

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“…Such factors include too much work, job change, time pressure, heavy work duty, role change, too high requirements of job-aided hardware/devices for personal skills, irregular working hours, shifts, and work in poor natural and social environments, etc. Excessive work stress may lead to fatigue, anxiety, depression, reduced ability to work, and even burnout ( 13 – 15 ). The Information Management and Analysis, for example, reveals the highest proportion of overload-induced work stress, depending on its working style and method.…”

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Understanding the condition of disease prevention and control workforce by disciplines, duties, and work stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case from Beijing disease prevention and control system

Mao

Yang²,

Meng³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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ObjectiveThe duties, discipline cross-complementation, and work stress of professional staff during the COVID-19 pandemic are analyzed and summarized to provide a scientific basis for workforce allocation and reserve in respect of infectious disease prevention and control in the disease prevention and control (DPC) system.MethodThe cross-sectional survey was made in April-May 2021 on professional staff in the Beijing DPC system by way of typical + cluster sampling. A total of 1,086 staff were surveyed via electronic questionnaire, which was independently designed by the Study Group and involves three dimensions, i.e., General Information, Working Intensity & Satisfaction, and Need for Key Capacity Building. This paper focuses on the former two dimensions: General Information, Working Intensity, and Satisfaction. The information collected is stored in a database built with Microsoft Excel 2010 and analyzed statistically with SPSS 22.0. The results are expressed in absolute quantities and proportions. Assuming that the overload of work stress is brought by incremental duties and cross-discipline tasks, a binary logistic regression model is constructed.ResultsAmong the 1086 staff surveyed, 1032 staff were engaged in COVID-19 prevention and control works, and they can be roughly divided into two groups by their disciplines: Public Health and Preventive Medicine (hereinafter referred to P, 637 staff, as 61.72%) and Non-Public Health and Preventive Medicine (hereinafter referred to N-P, 395 staff, as 38.28%). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1,032 staff assumed a total of 2239 duties, that is, 2.17 per person (PP), or 2.45 PP for the P group and 1.72 PP for the N-P group. As to four categories of duties, i.e., Spot Epidemiological Investigation and Sampling, Information Management and Analysis, On-site Disposal, Prevention, Control Guidance, and Publicity, the P group accounts for 76.14, 78.50, 74.74, and 57.66%, respectively, while the N-P group accounts for 23.86, 21.50, 25.26, and 42.34%, respectively. Obviously, the former proportions are higher than the latter proportions. The situation is the opposite of the Sample Detection and Other Works, where the P group accounts for 25.00 and 31.33%, respectively, while the N-P group accounts for 75.00 and 68.67%, respectively. The analysis of work stress reveals that the P group and N-P group have similar proportions in view of full load work stress, being 48.67 and 50.13%, respectively, and the P group shows a proportion of 34.38% in view of overload work stress, apparently higher than the N-P group (24.05%). Moreover, both groups indicate their work stresses are higher than the pre-COVID-19 period levels. According to the analysis of work stress factors, the duty quantity and cross-discipline tasks are statistically positively correlated with the probability of overload work stress.ConclusionThe front-line staff in the DPC system involved in the COVID-19 prevention and control primarily fall in the category of Public Health and Preventive Medicine discipline. The P group assumes the most duties, and the N-P group serves as an important cross-complement. The study results indicate that the prevention and control of same-scale epidemic require the duty post setting at least twice than usual. As to workforce recruitment, allocation, and reserve in respect of the DPC system, two solutions are optional: less addition of P staff, or more addition of N-P staff. A balance between P and N-P staff that enables the personnel composition to accommodate both routine DPC and unexpected epidemic needs to be further discussed.

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The nurses’ occupational stress components and outcomes, findings from an integrative review

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Cited by 26 publications

References 140 publications

Occupational stress and its relationship with spiritual coping among emergency department nurses and emergency medical services staff

Occupational stress and its relationship with spiritual coping among emergency department nurses and emergency medical services staff

Protective Factors and Coping Styles Associated with Quality of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Hospital or Care Institution and Private Practice Nurses

Understanding the condition of disease prevention and control workforce by disciplines, duties, and work stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case from Beijing disease prevention and control system

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