Abstract
Nurses’ job stress is considered as a human resource management’s issue in the hospital. Study literature reviewed 13.6% of ICU nurses encounter the potential threat related to the patient safety occurrences. This study was designed to investigate the correlation between nurses’ job stress and the implementation of patient safety in the hospital in-patient room. This study used a quantitative-analytical method with a cross-sectional approach. A total of 30 respondents were recruited by using proportionate random sampling. A self-reported questionnaire was utilized to collect the data. The normality data was tested by using Kolmogorov Smirnov analysis (p<0.05). Spearman Rank test was applied to analyze the overall data. The study findings revealed there was no significant relationship between nurses’ job stress and the patient safety on the target 1 (implementation of patient identification), target 3 (drug safety improvement), target 4 (definitive location and procedure of surgery patient), target 5 (post-health-services infection risk) and target 6 (risk-falls reduction). However, the analysis was found to be statistically significant between nurses’ job stress and effective-communication enhancement (target 2 of patient safety). The study findings concluded that stress could positively impact to improve nurses’ awareness to maintain the 6 targets of patient safety
Highlights
Stress is a serious issue faced by nurses working in a hospital setting
This study provides non-normal distribution of the nurses’ job stress data which ranged from 28 to 59
The results show there was no significant relationship between nurses’ job stress and the patient safety on the target 1, target 3, target 4, target 5 and target 6
Summary
A survey conducted in the United States described that 46% of nurses experienced job stress and 34% of them have the intention to leave their job. 31.2% of nurses were categorized at the high-stress level and 43.8% moderate stress level. Several factors contribute to moderate stress levels such as fatigue (degrades physical strength and immunity system), workload (the high burden to provide standard care to the patients) and work characteristics (consistently be prepared for all shifts). Americans’ stress levels in 2017 are consistent with those in 2016, with an average stress level of 4.8 (on a scale of 1 to 10) across both years. Around one-third of adults reported experiencing feeling nervous or anxious (36 percent), irritability or anger (35 percent), and fatigue (34 percent) due to their stress (American Psychological Association, 2017).[1]
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