Level of stress among the nurses working in Intensive care units

In the present study Non experimental descriptive survey approach with typical descriptive design was to assess the level of stress among the nurses working in intensive care units in selected hospitals of Navimumbai with a view to develop an health educational pamphlet on stress management. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of 50 ICU staff nurses. The researcher modified the expanded nursing stress scale to assess the level of stress among the ICU nurses. The health education pamphlet was developed by the researcher to distribute it among the ICU nurses. The data gathering process began from 20thSeptember to 10th October 2012. Descriptive and Inferential statistics had been used for data analysis. The overall findings revealed that majority 42% of the sample had severe stress. A highly significant association was found between the level of stress and the demographic variables, thus supporting the hypothesis. Hence the researcher emphasizes and concludes that stress alleviating programs should be conducted for the nurses and personality training should be offered and more research studies to be carried out in finding out the effectiveness of the relaxation program.