Question

3. As a nursing student, stress has not only become a way of life, but it has also become a sometimes-welcomed friend. Add it to your college, job, family, and so on, and you have the potential for continual stress. Understanding that stress is a part of life and cannot be avoided, strategies must be developed to facilitate adaptation a. Which professional situations within nursing have been identified as highly stressful? b. What can a nursing student/nurse do to reduce stress and prevent burnout? c. Which techniques can be used to manage stress?

Answer 1

Answer: The increased workload causes stress among the nursing professionals. Excess working hours causes burnout among nurses and hence reduces the quality of care.

It is important to prevent burnout among nurses and for this purpose it is important that nurse should have reduce working hours. The nurse should inform their supervisor or manager regarding their problem. The reduce working hours, safe environment can improve the stress condition of the nurses.

Stress can be managed through meditation, by taking rest in between. It is very important for the nurse to have a sound sleep to keep themselves fresh.