Experienced stress among nursing teams in primary health care
| Autor: | Tarja Suominen, Paula Asikainen, Sigitas Balciunas, Nijole Galdikiene |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Terveystieteiden yksikkö - School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Hoitotiede - Nursing 030504 nursing business.industry education Primary health care Workload General Medicine 03 medical and health sciences Nursing care 0302 clinical medicine Team nursing Nursing Scale (social sciences) Family medicine Stress (linguistics) medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Descriptive research 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Nursing Studies. 4 |
| ISSN: | 2324-7959 2324-7940 |
| DOI: | 10.5430/cns.v4n1p81 |
| Popis: | This research looks to describe experienced stress in nursing teams working in primary health care. Recent changes and increased demands in primary health care may result in highly stressed teams, which have a subsequent impact on nursing care. Nurses’ experienced stress has previously been identified at individual, team, organizational and cultural levels. Team related factors associated with stress have been identified as team climate, supportive colleagues and work environment. A descriptive study was conducted among nurses from 29 teams in 18 different primary health care centres, located in one Lithuanian county. The Expanded Nursing Stress Scale (ENSS) was used. A total of 187 nurses completed the questionnaire. The stress experienced by nurses depends on the team. The study results reveal both individual and team level stress. The effect of the team size is moderate, but the background factors of the teams had little association with the sub-categories of stress. Workload tended to cause more stress in larger teams. At the nurses’ team level, a strong positive correlation was found between all of the stress subcategory areas investigated, except for that of “discrimination”. Different teams followed different stress profiles, but based on their common features, various clusters were identified which should be noticed by management. Article has a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
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