RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSE CHARACTERISTICS AND NURSING STRESS COPING IN ONE PRIVATE HOSPITAL IN CENTRAL INDONESIA
Linawati Sihotang(a) Milka Yulianti(b) Resnawati Situmorang(c), Riama Marlyn Sihombing(d), Heman Pailak(d*)

a), b), c), Student Faculty Of Nursing, d) Lecture Faculty of Nursing, e) Clinical Educator Faculty of Nursing Pelita Harapan University, Jl. Karawaci, Tangerang, 5811, Indonesia* heman.pailak[at]uph.edu

Abstract

Lack of nurse capacity will cause nurses to experience fatigue in work. This is because the needs of patients are much more than the ability of the standardized nurses workload creating stress for nurses at work. Stress experienced by nurses will have an impact on nursing care services. Therefore nurses should have a strategy that someone uses to deal with the problems they face called coping mechanism. To determine the relationship between nurse characteristics and nurses^ stress coping in a private hospital in central Indonesia. This study uses quantitative correlational with cross sectional approach, and Chi square test. A sample of 98 respondents with total sampling was used. This study used a Brief Cope questionnaire consisting of 18 questions that had been tested for the validity of reliability on 20 respondents with r counted between 0.871 and Cronbach^s alpha 0.832. The results of this study indicated that there was no relationship between the nurses^ last education with stress coping (p value 0.32), there was no relationship between nurses^ marital status and stress coping (p value 0.641), there was a relationship between nurses work duration and coping stress (p value 0.021), there was no relationship between age of nurses with stress coping (p value 0.852). Future researchers should examine sex factor with x stress coping

Keywords: Characteristics of nurses, Coping mechanisms, Stress

Topic: Mental Health, Community, Family Health and Gerontological Nursing