title: [Workplace Stress Counseling for Nurses: A Community Counseling Model].
abstract: Nurses play an integral role in providing medical services, with the quality of nursing care related closely to the level of success that these services achieve. Nursing is a high-stress occupation with a relatively high risk of work burnout, which has been associated with reduced workplace satisfaction, increased turnover, and reduced patient safety. In recent years, the high level of work-related stress in nursing has been an important issue for the government, academia, and industry. Although various plans and policies have been developed to improve the nursing environment in order to reduce stress, these have focused only on the general nursing-practice environment without substantive consideration of the impact of psychological, social, and cultural factors on nursing work stress. The present article introduces a community-counseling model and proposes a strategic plan that is designed to reduce the workplace stress of clinical nurses. We hope that the proposed model may substantially improve the problem of nursing stress and prevent work burnout. This model provides a reference for advanced nursing colleagues. Associated programs may be developed for other hospitals and organizations that use the community-counseling model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Da-Chien General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Jen-Hsiang
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Da-Chien General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC. k0982802625@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Shiuan-Tzu
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Hsiao
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D003376:Counseling; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D017132:Workplace
keywords: community counseling; nursing workplace stress; work burnout