Occupational Stress Among Nurse: Causes, Effects, and Coping Strategies

Abstract

Background: Nurses in emergency medicine are generally responsible for delivering fast, life-saving treatment in high-stress events. Frontline healthcare workers like nurses are especially likely to experience occupational stress. Working long hours, a high patient-to-nurse ratio, addressing emotional demands, and insufficient internal organizational support are among the factors that tax nurses. Other probable consequences of chronic stress include mental and physical health problems, reduced work satisfaction, and inadequate patient treatment. Our ability to identify the components of professional stress and how they manifest themselves determines the lifetime of healthcare systems as well as the state of nurses. Researching effective coping mechanisms can also lead to feasible behaviors to aid to reduce stress and increase resilience at work.
Aim: Finding the causes and effects of professional stress on nurses is the main aim of this study. Examining numerous approaches also helps one to find ways to manage stress and improve nurses' condition. Research aimed to promote the development of policies and projects in this subject helps nursing practitioners locate a suitable workplace.
Conclusion: Occupational stress among nurses still presents a difficult issue for worldwide healthcare systems. The findings underscore the need of using targeted interventions to solve the fundamental causes of stress—which include emotional pressures, organizational inefficiencies, and severe workloads—by means of When healthcare organizations use good coping strategies and foster supportive work cultures, one can have better job satisfaction, higher nurse retention, and excellent patient care. Giving nurses' mental health and well-being top priority will help healthcare services to be sustainable.