To achieve these research goals, this study selected three general hospital having over 200 beds and made the 241 nurses the object of the research who were working at general wards, intensive care unit and emergency room.
Stress measurement tools we...
To achieve these research goals, this study selected three general hospital having over 200 beds and made the 241 nurses the object of the research who were working at general wards, intensive care unit and emergency room.
Stress measurement tools were revised and complemented to meet the purposes of this study based on the tool developed by Kim Yeon-Tae (1989) and complemented by Choi Hyun-Suk (1998), and nursing task performance measurement tool was revision and complement of the tool developed by Jeong Young-Ji (1998) based on that by Lee Byung-Suk (1983).
Data analysis was performed by SPSS program and analysis techniques used frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation were conducted, and posttest was done by Scheffe test
The results of this study were as follows.
1. Degree of job stress of research objects was mean 3.31, and according to area, nursing service was 3.15, job environment 3.52, personal relationship 3.24 and hospital administration and management 3.34.
2. As a result of analyzing job stress according to general characteristics of objects, there were significant difference according to education (F=3.03, p=.03), service ward (F=16.49, p=.00), nursing job selection motive (F=2.56, p=.04), expected period of nurses (F=4.99, p=.00) and job satisfaction (F=7.28, p=.00).
3. Degree of nursing task performance of the objects was mean 3.81 and according to area, independent nursing service 3.44, cooperative nursing service 4.05, personal relationship service 3.88 and general management service 3.86.
4. As a result of analyzing nursing task performance according to general characteristics of the objects, there were significant difference in age (F=5 29, p=.00), marriage (t=10.97, p=.00), education (F=3.05, p=.03), working careers (F=4.79, p=.00), rank (F=5.75, p=.00), nursing job selection motive (F=3.19, p=.O1) and job satisfaction (F=8.93, p=.00).
5. As a result of examining correlations between job stress and nursing task performance, there was no significant difference between nurses' job stress and their task performance (r=-.05, p=.41), but there were significant correlations between job stress and personal relationship service (r=-.15, p=.41), job stress and nursing task performance (r=-14, p=.03), and in cooperative task performance (r=-.13, p=.04),personal relationship service(r=-19, p=.00) general management service (r=-.l9, p=.00), and personal relationship stress and personal relationship service (r=-.13, p=.04).