Investigation of psychological healthy status and stress origins among new nurses in grade A hospital of Beijing

Abstract

Objective To study the relationship between psychological healthy status and stress origins among new nurses from grade A class 3 hospital of Beijing so as to provide relevance evidence for nursing management.Methods Totals of 155 new nurses that working time less than one year in three grade A hospitals were investigated with Nurses Stress Origins (NJSI) and Self-rating Symptom Scale (SCL-90).Results The main stress origin of new nurses was the allocation between working time and workload,with the score (2.71±0.71 ),and the problem of nursing specialty and work was followed with the score (2.51±0.61 ).The average score of psychological healthy was (53.03±46.33 ) and that of normal sample was ( 129.96±38.76),and the difference was statistically significant (t=1.631,P＜0.05 ).Every factor of nurses stress origins was positively correlated with psychological healthy status.The night shift was positively correlated with nurses stress origins.The difference was statistically significant between the numbers of work shift along with workload and nurses stress origins from speciality.There were statistically difference in work load,working environment,managements and interpersonal relationship between different departments ( F=3.06,0.7254,2.920,2.920,respectively; P＜0.01 ).Conclusions New nurses' stress origins have important influence on their psychological healthy status.Nurses managers should take relevance measures to relieve their work stress and pay attention to psychological need of new nurses to keep their health. Key words: New nurses; Psychological healthy; Stressor; Grade three and first-class hospital