"Influence of Stress and Nursing Leadership on Job Satisfaction of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurses"-Marilyn Meyer Bratt, et al.
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The article, “Influence of Stress and Nursing Leadership on Job Satisfaction of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nurses” by Marilyn Meyer Bratt, et al. provides the readers with the results of a cross-sectional survey that was used. A cross-sectional survey “involves looking at data from a population at one specific point in time” (Cherry). The survey was measuring; leadership, job satisfaction, collaboration, group work, stress on the job, and finally the organizational level of satisfaction of the population of the pediatric intensive care (PICU) nurses. They provided the results of the survey with the associations relating the six objects the survey was measuring. This was done by comparing the statistics with the results.
Finally, they concluded what was possible in efforts to cope with the stress. According to the article, “nurses want to feel that they are valued members of a team and that their contribution does make a difference, especially in the lives of critically ill children” (Brat et al. 315). They first focused on the general idea of stress during work. Statistics show that stress levels of new and inexperienced PICU nurses are the highest. It showed, “nurses with less than 2 years of experience had the highest means for all the study variables except professional job satisfaction, in which all group means were not significantly different” (313). Another significant finding was between shift type and stress. It was found that PICU nurses who worked rotating shifts throughout their career reported having higher levels of stress than ones who worked the same shift. Third, analyzing shift length and levels of stress reported significant results. They surveyed four different shift lengths; 8, 10, and 12 hours with the last one being a rotating mix of the three. The data concluded, “nurses who worked mixed shifts had higher levels of perceived job stress (mean = 2.19, range = 1 -4) than did nurses who worked 10-hour (mean = 1.99) and 12-hour shifts (mean = 2.04)” (312-313). Fourth, they found no correlation or significant differences with the amount of education and the level of stress PICU nurses faced. Lastly, the nurses were asked to provide written responses about their causes of stress, they all responded with three themes; problems concerning families, the amount of staff, and death. Many nurses stated, “that they had, “2 patients, the child and the family” and that both required nursing care” (313).
This article helps answer my question by providing statistical evidence to back up my claim about the stressors of pediatric nursing. It focuses on a specific type of pediatric nursing; the intensive care unit while including many different variables related to the stress. This article successfully answers my question of; how does being a pediatric nurse cause stress and how can we help solve these issues?
Finally, they concluded what was possible in efforts to cope with the stress. According to the article, “nurses want to feel that they are valued members of a team and that their contribution does make a difference, especially in the lives of critically ill children” (Brat et al. 315). They first focused on the general idea of stress during work. Statistics show that stress levels of new and inexperienced PICU nurses are the highest. It showed, “nurses with less than 2 years of experience had the highest means for all the study variables except professional job satisfaction, in which all group means were not significantly different” (313). Another significant finding was between shift type and stress. It was found that PICU nurses who worked rotating shifts throughout their career reported having higher levels of stress than ones who worked the same shift. Third, analyzing shift length and levels of stress reported significant results. They surveyed four different shift lengths; 8, 10, and 12 hours with the last one being a rotating mix of the three. The data concluded, “nurses who worked mixed shifts had higher levels of perceived job stress (mean = 2.19, range = 1 -4) than did nurses who worked 10-hour (mean = 1.99) and 12-hour shifts (mean = 2.04)” (312-313). Fourth, they found no correlation or significant differences with the amount of education and the level of stress PICU nurses faced. Lastly, the nurses were asked to provide written responses about their causes of stress, they all responded with three themes; problems concerning families, the amount of staff, and death. Many nurses stated, “that they had, “2 patients, the child and the family” and that both required nursing care” (313).
This article helps answer my question by providing statistical evidence to back up my claim about the stressors of pediatric nursing. It focuses on a specific type of pediatric nursing; the intensive care unit while including many different variables related to the stress. This article successfully answers my question of; how does being a pediatric nurse cause stress and how can we help solve these issues?
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