title: Relationship between stress and performance in a Japanese nursing organization.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this paper is to describe the relationship between job stress, stress coping ability and performance among Japanese nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Health risk and organization environment as job stress factors, sense of coherence (SOC) as stress coping ability and medical risk indicator and sickness-absence days as a performance proxy were used to investigate the relationship between stress and performance. Length of professional experience also was included in the investigation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings suggest a possibility that enriching nurses' professional experiences reduces medical risk. There is also a possibility that raising the SOC, while improving organization environment, contributes to reducing sickness-absence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A cross-sectional study of nurses in a single institution was used. In order to generalize the study's results, it will be necessary to conduct multi-institutional longitudinal studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study shows key factors affecting medical risk and sickness-absence leading to a reduced nursing performance.
authors: Department of Medical Information and Management Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan. Hida1@sompo-japan.co.jp
authors: Hiromasa
authors: H
authors: Ida
authors: Masako
authors: M
authors: Miura
authors: Masakazu
authors: M
authors: Komoda
authors: Naonori
authors: N
authors: Yakura
authors: Toshiki
authors: T
authors: Mano
authors: Tsutahiro
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authors: Hamaguchi
authors: Yoshihiko
authors: Y
authors: Yamazaki
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Kato
authors: Kazunobu
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authors: Yamauchi
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D003625:Data Collection; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007564:Japan; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000451:nursing* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital