Abstract
Purpose: Nursing profession is considered as a stressful and demanding job. The purpose of this research was to determine stressors types and degrees over two data collection periods in 2015-2016. Methods: This is a quantitative descriptive research study. A purposive sample of 55 female nursing students (complete 4th year cohort) from Princess Nourah University took part in this study. Results: The results highlight that the most influential cause of stress were factors related to taking care of patients, teachers and nursing staff. Moreover, nursing students reported increased level of stress comparing them in two different time periods. Conclusions: To overcome these clinical stressors, it requires students to be equipped with competent knowledge, skills and experience in dealing with the changing needs of patients’ condition. Future research should explore nursing students’ beliefs and causes of stress and how it can be avoided by conducting a qualitative research study.
Highlights
Nursing profession is considered as a stressful and demanding job [1]
The results highlight that the most influential cause of stress were factors related to taking care of patients, teachers and nursing staff
The results showed that, taking care of patients’ subscale, the stress related to teachers and nursing staff subscale, the stress from assignments and workloads subscale, the stress from peers and daily life subscale, the stress from lack of professional knowledge and skills subscale and the stress from the clinical environment subscale
Summary
Nursing profession is considered as a stressful and demanding job [1]. Many schoolers reported that nurses face stress in their clinical environment which results in burnout, depression and sleeping disorders [1] [2]. One big challenge for nursing students is to cope with stress associated with training during their clinical placements [3]. Such stress can be defined as a relationship between a person and surrounding environment and it is evaluated by the person own feelings of the situation as being challenging, demanding and outside their available resources [4]. It was reported by many schoolers, that nursing
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