| Abstrak/Abstract |
Background: Job stress is prevalent in health workers. Human responsibility in the health sector causes workers to be more vulnerable to stress. Workloads are ranked first which affects a person experiencing stress on his job. Nurses are the most health workers in the hospital, especially in the inpatient unit. The nurse is the health worker with the most working time related to the patient and the heavy nurses work load influences the welfare of work psychology. This condition triggered inpatient nurses in RSUD dr. H. Mohamad Rabain Muara Enim district is vulnerable to have job stress. This study aimed to determine the description of the level of job stress and identify related factors that include workload, job satisfaction and individual characteristics of nurses in RSUD dr. HM. Rabain Muara Enim.
Method: This research type was quantitative with cross sectional research design. Research subjects were 63 nurses who were taken using proportional stratified random sampling technique. Independent variable are physical workload, mental workload. External variables were job satisfaction, gender, age, year services of employee, marital status. The dependent variable is job stress. Job stress measurements used the stress scoring questionnaire due to the work of the scoring method. To find out the correlation of job stress with the job stress factors of respondent done statistic test using Chi Square test on physical workload variable and Fisher's Exact test for mental workload with Confidence Interval (CI) 95% and p-value 0,05.
Result: There was no relation between physical work load towards job stress in RSUD dr. H. Mohamad Rabain District of MuaraEnim (p = 0,69). There is no relation between mental work load towards job stress in RSUD Dr. H. Mohamad Rabain of Muara Enim District (p = 0.77).
Conclusion: Factors affecting the physical and mental workload were the absence of percentage between direct, indirect and non-nursing actions, young and capable nurses. The work stress experienced by the nurse is more influenced by other job factors. |
