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How do perioperative nurses cope with stress?

Brigid M Gillespie1, Steven Kermode

  • 1Mater Health Services, South Brisbane, Queensland.

Contemporary Nurse
|March 5, 2004
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Perioperative nurses face significant workplace stress, with less experienced staff experiencing greater negative impacts. Understanding coping mechanisms is crucial for supporting these high-risk professionals.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Occupational Psychology
  • Trauma Studies

Background:

  • High-risk professions, including nursing and emergency services, involve exposure to traumatic events.
  • Perioperative nursing is a specialization with elevated risks of trauma exposure.
  • Unaddressed critical incidents can lead to attrition among perioperative nurses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how theatre nurses cope with workplace stressors.
  • To identify the impact of stressful events on perioperative nurses.

Main Methods:

  • A triangulated study utilizing self-administered questionnaires.
  • 46 registered and enrolled nurses from a Brisbane hospital participated.
  • Nurses described stressful events and rated them using the Impact of Event Scale (IES).

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Main Results:

  • Nurses with less theatre experience reported higher negative impacts.
  • Female nurses (25%) showed avoidance tendencies, while male nurses (83%) used problem-solving strategies.
  • Predominant negative reactions included frustration and self-doubt.

Conclusions:

  • Workplace stress significantly affects perioperative nurses, particularly those with less experience.
  • Gender differences exist in coping strategies utilized by nurses.
  • Hospital organizations should adopt a more person-centered approach to manage workplace stress effectively.