The Relationship between Job Stress and Occupational Empowerment of Nurses in Selected Military Hospitals of the Country. J Police Med 2013; 2 (1)
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Background: Due to the nature of job, nurses face different kinds of stressful
factors that not only threaten the various aspects of their health, but also they
may impact on their empowerment as well as the quality of performance.
The present study was conducted to determine the level of occupational
stress among military nurses and also to investigate its relationship with two
indicators of occupational empowerment included clinical competencies and
psychological empowerment.
Materials and Methods: In the present cross-sectional descriptive study, a
sample of 126 nurses was participated from the selected military hospitals of
the country. Data were collected with questionnaires for measuring job stress
and occupational empowerment in two dimensions: clinical competencies and
psychological empowerment. Demographic information was also gathered by
questionnaire. The Data were analyzed using SPSS 17 and One-way ANOVA
test.
Results: The results show that 23.1% of nurses reported low level, 49.2%
moderate and 27.7% high level of stress. The comparison between three
groups of nurses with low, moderate and high level of stress indicated that
individuals with high stress significantly had lower score in Action aid
(p= 0.039), Training and Guidance(p= 0.007), Management ability and
Treatment aspects(p= 0.001). In other words, high stress levels in nurses may
decrease their nursing skills in the field of providing health care to patients
and supportive services to co-workers, training for patient’s family and also
their management roles.While no significant relation was found between
Job stress, Diagnostic and Occupational and Organizational tasks as well as
psychological empowerment.
Conclusion: Job stress is a recognized problem among healthcare workers
particularly nurses which has been studied extently. In addition to several
physical, mental and behavioral problems, stress is a factor that can prevent
nurses from providing optimal clinical care and decrease their occupational
competencies. As the current study indicate that job stress can lead to decrease
in nurse’s occupational empowerment dimensions such as providing the
caring, training, managing and treating services.
Article Type:
Systematic Review |
Received: 2013/12/21 | Accepted: 2014/03/12 | Published: 2014/03/12