Nursing professionals working in Intensive Care Units are challenged with high level of stress evolving due to critical condition of patients as well as urgency in decision making at life threatening situations. This makes Intensive Care Units more stressful place for working. Stress affects the emotional status which results into negative feelings hindering the care provided to patients. Study aimed to assess Coping strategies and factors associated with stress among staff nurses. Results showed the major coping strategies were used by the nurses including positive reappraisal, accepting responsibility and escape avoidance. Confronting coping was least used by the nurses. Factors like positive support and healthy work environment made level of stress less among nurses working in intensive units.
Stress, Coping strategies, Intensive care units, Nurses
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