A Study to Assess the Occupational Stress Among Staff Nurses at Selected Private Hospitals in Raipur

Stress is a physical or emotional state of response always present in a person as a result of living. It is intensified in a non specific response to an internal or external environmental change or threat. Occupational stress is the result of interaction between characteristics of individual persons, resources and stress factors. OBJECTIVES:- Assess the level of occupational stress among staff nurses at selected private hospital in Raipur.; To determine the relationship of occupational stress among staff nurses at selected private hospital in Raipur with selected socio demographic variables. RESULT:-Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis, result of the study revealed that on an average, 78% of the staff nurses are having frequent stress and 22% of the nurses are having neutral stress, none of them having no stress or occasional stress or extreme stress.