To assess occupational stress among staff nurses with a view to develop an information guide sheet on stress management

Stress is frequently described as ‘the black plague of the eighties or the modern epidemic’ has become an important feature and major problem of everyday life, threatening individual, organization and societal health.

The aim of this study is to assess occupational stress among staff nurses with a view to develop an information guide sheet sheet on stress management.

The descriptive survey approach adopted for the study with descriptive survey design. The present study was carried out on the staff nurses of CMI Hospital of District Dehradun, Uttrakhand, to assess their level of occupational stress. The purposive sampling technique was used to gather data by using stress scale for 50 staff nurses

The analysis of data was classified in to 3 sections like description of demographic characteristics of the sample, Findings related to occupational stress among respondent and Findings related to association between occupational stress with selected demographic variables have shown different aspects.

It is important to understand how work associated stress effects nurses and what factors in their working environment cause the greatest burden. It is also of great importance to gain more knowledge of nurses’ working conditions, the level of occupational stress and its management-knowledge that might be used to decrease nurses’ the level of occupational stress and increase their stress managing abilities.