A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON JOB STRESSORS AND EFFECTIVE COPING SKILLS AMONG NURSES

Nurse’s role has changed in the past three decades and is growing ever more. Nurses have become independent leading change in their clinical, education and entrepreneurship. They grow with expanding technology, knowledge and grow in the current challenges. Nursing is a program which is a combination of art and science, at the core concept we have fundamental respect for a human being. This leads to the responsibility to preserve human life and upload human dignity during patient care. Nurses are under constant pressure for making the right assessment for patient needs, priorities and relevant judgments for nursing actions. The main concept is that the nurse is available twenty four hours at the bedside of the patient, knowing each person’s personal health needs, providing care, acknowledging their emotions and monitoring their health status. These studies shed light of the situation of job stress and coping methods used by successful individuals. There needs to be a larger investigation into methods used by nurses in the Indian Subcontinent while practicing in the clinical area.