Study on Stress Response Method of Nurses in Department of Emergency Medicine

Abstract:

Nurses in Department of Emergency Medicine face the emergency of special populations; they live in special circumstances and shoulder a special mission, under the dual stress of internal and external environment source. However, whether the stressors cause stress to nurses is depending on the individual needs of the environment and the results interacting with their own resources assessment, if the assessment that the stress source exceeds the individual's response resources, the stress will be generated, which threats to the physical and mental health. This article pointed out that the stress of nurses in Department of Emergency Medicine is mainly from the patient care and nursing, most nurses are in moderate stress levels, nurses mainly use problem-directed response method, rather than emotion-directed response method. The problem-directed response method is significant negative correlation to the stress and emotion-directed response method is significant positive correlation.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 1962-1966
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.1962
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Chun Xia Qin, Xia Feng
• Keywords: Department of Emergency Medicine, Method, Nurses, Stress Response

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