RELATION BETWEEN TIME MANAGEMENT AND PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF STRESS

Abstract

Nursing profession is connected with stressful situations such as unstable work time, excessive workload, paper work, and so on. Nurses should provide quality care, while avoiding stress. Time management is necessary to do so. The study aim is to identify the relation between time management and physical symptoms of stress.
Study design: Descriptive correlational design was carried out.
Method: sample included all nurses working in Adult Intensive Care Units (ICUs) at Aswan University Hospital.
Tools of data collection included: socio-demographic characteristic and stress level scale by Yousef (2005), evaluation of physical symptoms was developed by Abu L-Hussein and Elhelou (2010), and assessment of the time management scale was developed by Alexander (1992).
Results: the highest majority (96.7%) of nurses had moderate stress level. Around two thirds of study sample (62.3%) complies with moderate time management.
Conclusion: a highly significant correlation was found between time management and stress physical symptoms. Nursing staff can manage stress symptoms by proper time management and plan of care.
Recommendations: In service education program for time management should be included and assessed frequently in intensive care nurses.