Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing (한국직업건강간호학회지)
- Volume 13 Issue 1
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- Pages.40-47
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- 2004
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- 2287-2531(pISSN)
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- 2466-1856(eISSN)
An Analysis of Studies on Clinical Nurses' Job Stress
임상간호사의 직무스트레스에 관한 국내논문분석
- Choi, Seo Ran (Severance Hospital) ;
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Jung, Hye Sun
(Graduate School of Occupational Health, The Catholic University)
- Published : 2004.05.30
Abstract
Purpose: To understand the recent trend of studies for nursing job stress, we collected Korean articles about job stress of clinical nurses. Method: Seventy two articles were selected from the database of "richis", Korean journals of related academic society, and dissertation papers, which are presented from 1981 to 2002. Result: The trend shows that the number of researches for the job stress of clinical nurses are increasing from the year of 1996. Most of the researches are for dissertation papers (75.0%), have done surveys (90.3%), and used questionnaires (94.4%). The nurses who were studied have their jobs in general wards of hospitals (50.6%). And 36.1% of the researches used the tool of Kim and Gu (1984) to measure job stress. These researches focused mainly on job satisfaction, burnout and coping successively. Conclusion: As only 6 out of 72 researches examined in this study have experimental design (8.3%), it can be said that more experimental studies are needed in this area. And we might also consider to use meta-analytic techniques for further studies, because these researches have used very similar tools for the same subject.