Stress taking a toll on nurses
I haven’t updated my blog for quite sometimes. Just want to announce that I am still alive. Why I have been so quiet lately? It’s because I have been working hard. Being a fulltime nurse is not as easy as I expected. Physical and emotional stress can really hit me hard.
An article “stress taking a toll on nurses” in the newspaper today stated that according to Statistic Canada, job strain and stress have been strongly linkedto fair or poor physical and mental health for nurses. The following is a copy of the article:
Stress, no respect cause of problems: study
A new study has linked psychological factors like work stress, low autonomy and lack of respect to health problems among Canada’s 314,900 nurses, finding that many regularly work overtime and have more than one job.
Statistic Canada found that the proportion of nurses who reported high stress at work was more than that among employed people overall. The researchers defined work stress as occurring when job responsibilities outpaced a worker’s ability to decide how to perform the tasks required to them.
The survey of more than 19,000 nurses from across Canada found that nearly half (46 per cent) of nurses worked overtime, and half regularly worked unpaid overtime.
Only about six in 10 nurses had full time jobs in 2005, the study found.
“Among female nurses, a substantial share (19 per cent) had more than one job” the study said.
A key finding concerned the support nurses feel they receive from co-workers. A disproportionately high share (45 per cent of female nurses and 51 per cent of males) reported low support from co-workers compared with employed Canadians in general (33 per cent of females, 32 per cent of males).
On the positive side, the vast majority of nurses reported that they had the suppot of their supervisors and immediate managers.
An article “stress taking a toll on nurses” in the newspaper today stated that according to Statistic Canada, job strain and stress have been strongly linkedto fair or poor physical and mental health for nurses. The following is a copy of the article:
Stress, no respect cause of problems: study
A new study has linked psychological factors like work stress, low autonomy and lack of respect to health problems among Canada’s 314,900 nurses, finding that many regularly work overtime and have more than one job.
Statistic Canada found that the proportion of nurses who reported high stress at work was more than that among employed people overall. The researchers defined work stress as occurring when job responsibilities outpaced a worker’s ability to decide how to perform the tasks required to them.
The survey of more than 19,000 nurses from across Canada found that nearly half (46 per cent) of nurses worked overtime, and half regularly worked unpaid overtime.
Only about six in 10 nurses had full time jobs in 2005, the study found.
“Among female nurses, a substantial share (19 per cent) had more than one job” the study said.
A key finding concerned the support nurses feel they receive from co-workers. A disproportionately high share (45 per cent of female nurses and 51 per cent of males) reported low support from co-workers compared with employed Canadians in general (33 per cent of females, 32 per cent of males).
On the positive side, the vast majority of nurses reported that they had the suppot of their supervisors and immediate managers.
posted by Christy @ 9:35 a.m.
1 Comments:
At 10:11:00 a.m.,
jftfaith said…
Life's esp tough on healthcare professionals (esp. new grads) which I can totally relate! But as u become more experienced, the stress level should be better tolerated, right? Seize every moment to take a breathe, look out the window...the sun's shining...God's watching over you! He'll be your guide...and tmr's another day....
Don't forget that starting next week you'll hv a physical being next next door to support u PRN...hopefully STAT too =p
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