title: Managing the stress of caring for rehabilitation patients.
abstract: Dealing with stress is stressful! Evaluation is important to determine whether your plan for overpowering stress is working. Do you feel less stress as a result of what you have tried? Nurses use creativity every day in caring for their patients; applying that same spirit of creativity for stress reduction becomes personally meaningful. Stress is a universal condition, so friends and colleagues are good sources of ideas for stress management. Although stress is a human condition, unlikely to be totally eliminated, decreasing it as much as possible is important. Efforts in a stress reduction program can be met with great success. Recognizing the problem, assessing its magnitude, and then implementing selected strategies are all that is required. Overpowering stress in their lives is possible for nurses who are then healthier, happier, and even better caregivers.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA. kward@mtsu.edu
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Krau
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D000078329:Workforce