Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Hur hanterar sjuksköterskor stress i arbetet?: En litteraturöversikt
University West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Divison of Caring Sciences, undergraduate level.
University West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Divison of Caring Sciences, undergraduate level.
2015 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
How do nurses handle occupational stress? : A literature overview (English)
Abstract [en]

Background: The nursing profession involves meetings and situations which can be stressful. The work environment can cause additional stress in the form of time pressure, lack of support from colleagues, management or disgruntled family members and patients. This places the nurse in a position that requires a sharpened ability to handle stress. It can become overwhelming and unmanageable and cause a serious threat to the nurse's health and wellbeing. To handle stress the nurses uses different coping strategies.

Aim: The aim of the review was to gain a better understanding of how nurses deal with occupational stress.

Method: A systematic literature overview study based on eleven articles, including both qualitative and quantitative studies.

Results: Nurses deal with stress in different ways based on their own resources. The results were divided in to seven themes: Seeking social support for emotional expression, Planning and problem solving to reduce stress, Setting boundaries to alleviate stress, Create time and space for recovery, Create time for reflection and guidance, Manage what cannot be affected and Creating distance in order to gain perspective.

Conclusion: Perceived stress differs wide between nurses. A great responsibility therefore rests on the nurse herself to learn to manage her stress. The employer can create supportive conditions but the nurse must learn to master their own stress.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. , p. 23
Keywords [en]
coping, coping strategies, health, occupational stress, nurse.
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-7320Local ID: EXO502OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-7320DiVA, id: diva2:787091
Subject / course
Nursing science
Educational program
Sjuksköterskeprogrammet
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2015-02-13 Created: 2015-02-09 Last updated: 2015-02-13Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(383 kB)295 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 383 kBChecksum SHA-512
c265b7d56589af31035222c5eaf7e17a4650ed47663c06d4439338bfd88b726c2f1a0a08cd77c379e5ed0525da6db627f8296b23f1dd037900ec6b699cd5ef44
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Divison of Caring Sciences, undergraduate level
Nursing

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 295 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 582 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf