Increasingly, stress as a concept is being used as an explanation of a wide variety of negative phenomena which are experienced by all people, but which include nurses in particular and their patients. Nursing has been identified as a'high stress'profession and one can hardly pick up a ...
Stress is a normal part of life that can either help us learn and grow or cause us significant problems. Stress releases powerful neurochemicals and hormones that prepare us for action (to fight or flee). If we don't take action, the stress response can create or worsen health problems. ...
and is wrought with other measurement problems. It varies by hospital or department. It varies by patient. It varies by nurse. To make matters worse, the Department of Labor has identified hospital nursing as one of
(Selye, 1974) there are other identified factors of vulnerability to stress as seen in poor skills (such as coping or problem solving abilities) or personality traits acquired during human socialization and interplaying with genetics (e.g., neuroticism, rigidity, intolerance, or the concept of ...
Self-compassion was significantly associated with academic stress and academic self-efficacy of nursing students, such that with one unit increase in self-compassion score, the likelihood of having a low level of academic stress and having a high level of academic self-efficacy increased by 10% ...
where never = 0 and daily = 6. If emotional exhaustion levels and depersonalization scores are collectively high, while personal accomplishment scores are low, a high level of burnout is indicated (Sabbah, et al., 2012, p. 645) (Maslach & Jackson, 2016). The Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) ...
"If our stress scale is tipped over and weighing down, then we need to either remove some of the stress from the scale or add coping skills to the other side.” Not every strategy will work for every person. The trick is finding what works for you. Take Deep Breaths Meditation is a ...
Considering the diversity of stressful situations and the diversity of coping strategies, investigating stress among health professionals is relevant (Ngoc et al., 2018; Villagran et al., 2023), especially among those in the nursing field, the largest healthcare profession and most frequently present...
concept, palliative coping which is a way of modulating tension and making the situation more tolerable or keeping it under control without directly taking care of the problem. Ten of the items in the subscale were previously classified as affective coping strategies and four as problem-oriented. ...
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