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Volume 7
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Nursing Global 2018
March 01-03, 2018
March 01-03, 2018 | London, UK
47
th
Global Nursing & Healthcare Conference
Nursing staff development, work conditions, strain, and stress in care of elderly in Jordan
Mamdouh Yassin Faleh Al Hunaiti
University of Jordan, Jordan
Background:
Nursing is a stressful job requiring supportive management and effective interventions using appropriate
planning. To change work environments and improve organizations, accurate data are required.
Objectives:
To explore the nursing staff stress and strain in relation to elderly care and to examine the association between staff
development, work conditions and staff-perceived work stress and strain.
Methods:
Cluster random sampling was undertaken to select three hospitals from the 31 private hospitals, in addition to the
three governmental hospitals, which are located in Amman, the capital of Jordan. A cross-sectional design was used to recruit
the 500 nurses who worked with elderly clients in the study settings.
Results:
The most common sources of stress for geriatric nurses in Jordan were unsocial hours and difficult patients;
psychological strain arose from working with dementia patients and insufficient time for tasks; physical stress came with
cleaning and a single workspace. Predictors for work strain lay in factors of gender, job satisfaction, competence, development
skills, and employee development. Stress predictors added work environment to this strain list. Female nurses had more
physical and psychological strain and stress than male nurses; and nurses who have a better work environment had less stress.
Conclusion:
Employeeship culture ideas could be partially implemented to improve partnership in the workforce within a
hospital or between health institutions. Rotating elder care nurse groups through other wards would temporarily replace the
stress of dementia patients with a varied workspace, different collegiate and superordinate interaction and different new tasks.
Biography
My name is Mamdouh El-Hneiti. I’ve finished my MSc in cancer care from Oxford Brooks University in 2009 and then completed my PhD in nursing studies from
Kings College London in 2014. I have four years teaching experience. I’m currently working as assistant professor at the University of Jordan. My research areas
are community nursing, primary nursing care and elderly care. I’m currently working on many research projects. One of them is related to the role of nursing in
caring for elderly and its association with work stress and strain.
Mamdouh Yassin Faleh Al Hunaiti, J Nurs Care 2018, Volume 7
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-064