what causes your work related stress?

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Permalink Reply by kris on September 24, 2008 at 12:18pm

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Permalink Reply by Ellen Fang on October 28, 2009 at 11:41am

Although I did much of my nursing degree online, some of the stress involved some of the drama that goes on in both school and the hospital that I work at!

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Permalink Reply by Sheila on October 29, 2009 at 1:21pm

How about discrimination encountered by immigrant nurses? Discrimination can be a source of stress in the nursing workplace too.

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Permalink Reply by ARVIN ANTONIO GUMATO PAREJA on November 3, 2009 at 12:45am

There are a number of factors that can make you feel stressed at work, including:
• poor working conditions
• long working hours
• relationships with colleagues
• lack of job security
• difficult journeys to and from work
• the way the company is managed
• mismatch between the requirements of the job and your own capabilities and needs
• inflexible working hours
• too much or too little responsibility
However, often there is no single cause of work-related stress. Although it can be triggered by sudden, unexpected pressures, it's often the result of a combination of stressful factors that build up over time.

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Permalink Reply by Sydneybern on December 3, 2009 at 3:50pm

CAUSES OF WORK RELATED STRESS:
1. patient nurse ratio: the nurse can't care for too many patient especially if those patients are for close monitoring like, every 15 min. you measure intake and output, every 5 mins. vital signs...you know what I mean.Thus, with this case one is to one should be the best nurse client ratio to eliminate mistakes and at the same time stress.

2. Environment: If the place is cluttered, too much noise as in noise pollution, the of the environment smell is suffocating, all of these can lead to stress.

3.Unprofessional behavior of colleagues, e.g. sexual harassment, etc.

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Permalink Reply by sheila Leander on January 5, 2010 at 5:12pm

Two things for me - staffing and maintenance. The employer does not seem to care that there is huge turnover - just when we get someone trained, they leave. Of course, there are remedies to that including work environment and pay. Secondly, maintenance. I went to work one Saturday morning and found that two refrigerators were not working. I was told by the DON to move all meds to another floor with a working refrigerator and that there would be no one to even look at the appliances until Monday. The janitor and I tried to see if it was a circuit breaker, because how often do two refrigerators in one room go out at the same time. We were unsuccessful. So nursing is expected to accommodate and carry meds across floors in all our spare time. This is the kind of thing that makes the work unsatisfactory. Inadequate resources devoted to maintenance and lack of concern about staffing and turnover.

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Permalink Reply by Stacey Boetto on May 15, 2011 at 12:40pm

Undermining of my management skills/directions

Being told one thing then having the opposite being done by the owner

Other workers not pulling their weight

lack of respect from co workers/patients

Being told (as the manager) to do something, then having the staff go whine to the owner and then he reverses what he told me to do (goes back to 1 and 2).

 

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