title: A strategy for managing change and stress. Developing staff support groups.
abstract: If change is stress-inducing, nursing must be one of the most stressful professions around. The profession is currently battling through a seemingly endless series of developments at all levels, which must affect individual practitioners. One way of minimising stress on nurses is to set up peer support groups.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Stevenson
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D010379:Peer Group; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*