Developing of educational programs to enhance new nurses' capacity to deal with stress.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25670933
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental nursing
• Research Institution: Sugiyama Jogakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Nakajima Fumiko 椙山女学園大学, 看護学部, 講師 (20573687)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 新人看護師 / 首尾一貫感覚 / SOC / ストレス / バーンアウト / 教育プログラム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The stress on new nurses appears most severe in their first three months after hiring. To assist new nurses' workplace adaptation, we focused on the stress coping abilities evaluated by Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Scale. We developed, implemented and evaluated four educational programs a year to enhance new nurses' capacity to deal with stress. Our programs increased their abilities to cope with stress three months after hiring, alleviated emotional exhaustion, and enhanced self-fulfillment. However, the decline of Sense of Coherence after six months suggests the need for further measures to sustain the effectiveness of this training.

Free Research Field

看護管理