Identifying Stress Factors Faced by Nurses in Geriatric Care : A Descriptive Literature Review
Butay, Jonalyn; Dumlan, Jonel; Mangalus, Elena (2024)
2024
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This descriptive literature review’s purpose is to identify the primary stress factors faced by nurses in geriatric care and how the stress factors affect nurses’ working conditions. Hence, the aim of this study is to produce new knowledge in improving the working conditions of geriatric nurses, and with new information this would help geriatric nurses to enhance their job satisfaction.
Through the analysis of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, data were collected from CINAHL and PubMed databases. A total of 12 research publications were included in this study through PRISMA. The data was examined and analysed using inductive content analysis.
In this study, a total of twelve articles were collected to address the two research questions: “What are the main stress factors experienced by nurses in geriatric care?” and “How do the stress factors affect nurses’ working conditions in geriatric care?”. Inductive content analysis was utilised to determine and understand the meanings of the collected data, resulting in the identification of 54 sub-categories, 13 generic categories, and 2 major categories. These two main categories are 1) Stress factors faced by nurses in geriatric care, derived from 5 generic categories and 28 sub-categories, and 2) Effects of stress factors to nurses’ working conditions in geriatric care, derived from 8 generic categories and 26 sub-categories.
This literature review will examine the main stress factors experienced by nurses in geriatric care, illuminating on how these stress factors affect nurses’ working conditions. Likewise, the study identifies main stress factors faced by nurses in geriatric care including workplace stressors, psychological stressors, emotional stressors, organisational stressors and communication challenges stressors. These stress factors often lead to adverse working conditions resulting in burnout and fatigue, job dissatisfaction, health risk factors, strain interpersonal relationship, impaired mental and emotional well-being, reduced quality of care, miscommunication on care quality, and increased turn-over rates.
Through the analysis of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, data were collected from CINAHL and PubMed databases. A total of 12 research publications were included in this study through PRISMA. The data was examined and analysed using inductive content analysis.
In this study, a total of twelve articles were collected to address the two research questions: “What are the main stress factors experienced by nurses in geriatric care?” and “How do the stress factors affect nurses’ working conditions in geriatric care?”. Inductive content analysis was utilised to determine and understand the meanings of the collected data, resulting in the identification of 54 sub-categories, 13 generic categories, and 2 major categories. These two main categories are 1) Stress factors faced by nurses in geriatric care, derived from 5 generic categories and 28 sub-categories, and 2) Effects of stress factors to nurses’ working conditions in geriatric care, derived from 8 generic categories and 26 sub-categories.
This literature review will examine the main stress factors experienced by nurses in geriatric care, illuminating on how these stress factors affect nurses’ working conditions. Likewise, the study identifies main stress factors faced by nurses in geriatric care including workplace stressors, psychological stressors, emotional stressors, organisational stressors and communication challenges stressors. These stress factors often lead to adverse working conditions resulting in burnout and fatigue, job dissatisfaction, health risk factors, strain interpersonal relationship, impaired mental and emotional well-being, reduced quality of care, miscommunication on care quality, and increased turn-over rates.