Abstract

This study has been aimed to relieve the stress of the nurses, to increase the job adaption and to provide better nursing service by investigating and analyzing the correlation between the degree of the stress and the type of coping with the clinical nurses on duties. 302 clinical nurses working in three general hospitals and one university hospital with over 400 beds in Seoul and Kyeonggi province answered the questionnaire from Sep. 16th, 2002 to Oct. 8th, 2002 to collect the materials on this study. The collected materials have been analyzed with SPSS program using frequency, percentage, average mean, standard deviation, preference, t-test, F-test(ANOVA), DMR test, Pearson's correlation coefficient. The Result of This Study. 1) The degree of stress was 2.92 on average and the coping type was 2.49 on average in the result. 2) The degree of the job stress in the general characteristics of the nurses showed no significant difference(p>.05) except with the department of assignment(F=2.437, p=.015). 3) The comparative result of the coping type in the general chracteristics showed no significant difference in statistics (p>.05). 4) There was the significant correlation between job stress and coping type(r=.244, p<.05). In other words, the higher the stress is , the more coping types have been used. To manage and arbitrate the stress of the nurse in very important subject for individual well-being, occupational development, quality of nursing the patients, and effcient management of human resources. Therefore it is necessary to study on the development of additional causes of stress and the program for the management of stress producted by the recent medical system change.

• Keywords: Job stress, Coping