155 INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH A Study On Job Stress Among Staff Nurses In

The present paper aims to describe the job stress prevailing among staff nurses employed at hospitals in Villupuram District of Tamil Nadu. This descriptive research study was carried out in 2 hospitals with the objectives of studying the key variables namely Organizational, Job, Group and Individual Stressors that are felt and experienced by the staff nurses employed in these hospitals. The researcher selected 50 Staff Nurse by applying the two phase random sampling technique. The data collected was systematically processed and analyzed. The salient ndings of the study revealed that majority (86%) of the respondents were female and were married. Majority (76%) of them was from a nuclear family setup and majority (78%) of them was Hindus. More than half (68%) of the respondents were from the back ward community and less than half (44%) of the respondents were from a rural background. The major ndings of the study pertaining to the key variables revealed that nearly half of the respondents experience high level of stress in the dimensions of Individual, Job and organizational stressors. However, only 36 percentage of the respondents experience high level of stress in the dimension of group stressors. Finally, 46 percent of the respondents experience overall high level of Job Stress. The present paper also portrays suitable suggestions for reducing the level of stress among the staff nurses