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A Study To Assess The Level Of Job Stress And Its Effect On Job Performance Among Staff Nurses Working In Selected Hospitals, Hubli, With The View To Develop An Information Booklet

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Nurses are no doubt the prime care givers who undergo tremendous stress. The comprehensive nursing care activities, workload, time pressure, emotional problems and are some of the sources of stress for nurses. The aim of the study was assess the level of job stress and its effects on job performance among staff nurses, with the view to develop an information booklet. Objectives, to assess the level of job stress among staff nurses, to assess the effect of job stress on job performance among staff nurses, to find out correlation between the level of job stress and job performance among staff nurses, to find out association between level of job stress and job performance among staff nurses with their selected demographic variables. Method 60 staff nurses are selected in selected hospitals Hubli, India, through non-probability purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by stress rating scale, structured job performance questionnaires. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Result of overall stress ratting scores of the staff nurses revealed that majority of staff nurses 41(68.33%) had moderate stress, 14(23.33%) had mild stress, 05(08.33%) had severe stress. Whereas in job performance questionnaire majority of staff nurses 34(56.66%) had moderate performance, 16(26.66%) had high performance and 10(16.88%) had low performance. Hence it is evident that most of the staff nurses are moderately stressed and moderately job performer, so maintenance of job stress is necessary for the better job performance for the nurses, it in turns to influence the quality of care to the patient also health side effects to the staff nurses.

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