• Munira Akhter

Nursing, by its nature, is an occupation subject to a high degree of stress. This profession involves working with people who are themselves suffering a considerable degree of stress. Occupational stress compromised quality of service delivery and also leads as employees’ burnout, turnover and absenteeism. The Objective of the study is to determine the level of occupational stress and associated factors among nurses. The study employed facility based cross sectional study. All nurses who served at least for 6 months in Dhaka & Gazipur areas hospitals were asked using self-administered structured questionnaire. The collected data was checked manually, edited, coded and entered into SPSS and finally it was exported in to statistical package for social science for cleaning and analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to estimate frequency percent and mean. Dependent variables (occupational stress) were computed based on the respondents having average score of mean and above in expanded nursing stress scale. In this study, more than half of nurses had occupational stress, thus, hospitals collaborative with concerned stakeholders to design stress reduction program for tackling occupational stress among nurses.

Occupational stress, nurses, associated factors, Bangladesh

"Occupational Stress and Associated Factors among Nurses: Bangladesh Perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.h39-h46, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312707.pdf

"Occupational Stress and Associated Factors among Nurses: Bangladesh Perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. pph39-h46, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312707.pdf