Comparison between job stress among emergency department nurses with nurses of other departments

Abstract

study aimed to compare with the rest Material This study was conducted on Data from the questionnaire of demographic data and questionnaire ENSS (Expanded Nursing Stress Scale) distributed randomly among in the were collected. Its reliability was 0.96 by α- Chronbach. Data analysis using by SPSS 16 software using statistical method, and for analyzing data Chi-square tests, Anova and T test were used. Results: The mean job stress nursing was in emergency department (2.14±0.52) and in non-emergency departments (0.651 ± 1.84). The results show that the mean score of occupational stress are gener-ally higher than in other parts of the emergency department nurses (p=0.002). And independent t-test showed that difference between the two groups in the subscales of emotional lack of preparation, problems with co-workers, workload, patients and their families was Sig nificant (p=0.001).