Volume 24, Issue 103, May - June, 2020

Occupational stress of the medical nurses in 7A Military Hospital

Thanh-Tam Vu¹, Huong-Giang Tran-Thi², Minh-Kha Tran³, Quang-Tri Le^4♦

¹Scientific Research Department, 7A Military Hospital, 466 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 8, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, 72706, Email: thanhtam39ytcc11@gmail.com
²Division of Nursing, 7A Military Hospital, 466 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 8, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, 72706, Viet Nam ; Email: phuonganh3052011@gmail.com
³Division of Nursing, 7A Military Hospital, 466 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 8, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, 72706, Viet Nam; Email: cntranminhkha@gmail.com
⁴Department of Orthopedics and Department of High-Tech Diagnostics, 7A Military Hospital, 466 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 8, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, 72706, Viet Nam; Email: lqtri@ntt.edu.vn / tsbstri@yahoo.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2777-0828

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Orthopedics and Department of High-Tech Diagnostics, 7A Military Hospital, 466 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 8, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, 72706, Viet Nam; Email: lqtri@ntt.edu.vn / tsbstri@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Aim: This study described the stress situation of the medical nurses in 7A Military Hospital in 2019. Material and methods: This study employed a descriptive, cross-sectional approach and was performed on 165 nurses in 7A Military Hospital. The participants were asked to fill the information of their stress situation in a predesigned questionnaire based on the Expanded Nursing Stress Scale. The stress situation was classified into three levels of “low”, “average”, and “high”. Results: The studied nurses had a “low” stress level. The lowest stress score occurred in the issues related to their superiors such as lack of assistance from the leading board or conflicts with the head nurse in another department (1.55±0.18), or problem with peers (1.55 ±0.14) for example difference in genders or lack of sympathy and opportunity in experience sharing. The highest stress score was observed in the issues related to the patients’ relatives (2.12 ±0.25), such as irrational demands or verbal abuse from these relatives. Conclusion: In general the stress situation of the nurses is low. The largest factors causing this issue are irrational demands and verbal abuse from the patients’ relatives, and the least impacted factors are gender differences between colleagues and lack of assistance from the head nurses.

Keywords: Stress, Nurse, Expanded Nursing Stress Scale (ENSS).

Medical Science, 2020, 24(103), 1628-1633

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