Sjuksköterskors upplevda stress och stresshantering. En empirisk studie.
The purpose of this empirical study was to investigate if stress exists among nurses, and if it exists how do they experience it and how do they cope whit it. The nurses also got to define the word stress. Karasek and Theorells demandcontrollmodell were used as a theoretical framework. The result of the study answers our research questions and gives us a good insight how the nurses experience stress and how they cope with it. The result shows that 56 of 60 nurses indicated that they experience medium to high level of stress a couple of days a week or more often and that it affects their work. Since not many superiors offers their nurses any stress coping many nurses have to handle their stress on their own. Most of them define stress as something negative were they no longer have any control over the situation.