title: Survey and coping strategies for job stress of new nurses in pharmacy intravenous admixture service: a pilot study.
abstract: To survey the nurse stress and analyze stressors in new nurses from pharmacy intravenous admixture service (PIAS). A questionnaire survey referring to the revised stressor scale was carried out on 52 new nurses of PIAS in four hospitals in Harbin. The average stress score for all participants was 2.43±0.63, as medium level of stress. The stressors were classified into 6 categories: ensuring up-to-date knowledge of professional nursing skills, increased workload and work-time, interpersonal relationship, ensuring knowledge of equipments, attending educational programs, and decreased occupational demand. The most important stressors included fear of medical accident occurrence, fear of failure in performance assessment, fear of occupational injuries, feeling fatigue and lack of sleep. Considering the various kinds of stressors in the working places, it was necessary for managers' to use appropriate strategies to cope with the job stress in new nurses of PIAS.
authors.affiliation: The Intravenous Drugs Allocation Centre, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University Harbin 150001, China.
authors.forename: Feng-Shuang
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Division of Publicity, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University Harbin 150001, China.
authors.forename: Ou
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Pathology, Mu Dan Jiang Medical University China.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: The Pediatric Surgical Head Nurse, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University Harbin 150001, China.
authors.forename: Feng-Hua
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Image, Mu Dan Jiang Medical University China.
authors.forename: Chun-Hui
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Ren
keywords: Job stress nurse coping strategy; pharmacy intravenous admixture service