Increased Workload of Nurses Leads to More Stress in Nurses
Saepudin, Rahayu Iskandar

Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani Yogyakarta

Abstract

Background: Nurse workload is the volume of work of nurses in a hospital unit, with two types of workload, namely physical workload and mental workload. Physical workload includes mobilising patients, installing IVs and installing oxygen. While the mental workload is in the form of work complexity, dealing with patients and families with critical conditions so that nurses must also calm. The faculturation of this workload will have an impact on work stress in nurses. Stress is an unspecific reaction of the body due to the pressure it experiences. There are several factors for the occurrence of stress in nurses, including high job demands, an uncertain number of patients and sometimes not proportional to the number of nurses on duty, varying patient conditions so that this makes pressure on nurses and the onset of stress for nurses.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the increasing workload on nurses has an impact on the stress level of the Executive Nurse in the Inpatient Room of RSPAU dr. Suhardi Hardjolukito.
Methode: This study uses quantitative research with a Cross Sectional approach. Tools using questionnaires. The sampling technique in this study used total sampling with a sample size of 34 nurses. Statistical tests using Gamma.
Result : The results obtained Pvalue 0.000 and the value of r 1.0 means that there is a very strong relationship, where the higher the workload on nurses, the higher the stress level of executive nurses in the inpatient room of RSPAU dr. Suhardi Hardjolukito.
Conclusion : There is a very strong relationship between workload and stress level of executive nurses at RSPAU dr Suhardi Hardjolukito

Keywords: Nurse, workload, stress

Topic: Management and Informatic Health Science