A study to assess the occupational stress among staff nurses at selected private hospitals in Raipur

Stress is a physical or emotional state of response always present in a person as a result of living. It is intensified in a non specific response to an internal or external environmental change or threat. Occupational stress is the result of interaction between characteristics of individual persons, resources and stress factors.

Assess the level of occupational stress among staff nurses at selected private hospital in Raipur.; To determine the relationship of occupational stress among staff nurses at selected private hospital in Raipur with selected socio demographic variables.

Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis, result of the study revealed that on an average, 78% of the staff nurses are having frequent stress and 22% of the nurses are having neutral stress, none of them having no stress or occasional stress or extreme stress.