Impact of Stress Management on Job Related

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Literature search on the nursing topic
Nursing is an occupation that is associated with a high level of stress and paying attention
to stress management intervention is crucial as stress impairs the provision of quality care and
efficiency in care delivery. Stress contributes to burnout, high rate of absenteeism as well as high
nursing turnover. Hence, identifying the degree to which stress management programs can
reduce stress, promote the well-being of nurses and maintain an adequate nurse-patient ratio is
important. The literature review aims to identify the impact of stress management on job-related
stress among nurses and the literature search will focus on identifying the best literature that
fulfils this aim. Any research process starts with the formulation of a good research question and
a good research question is narrowly focused. Framing research question is important to guide
data collection or literature search process too. Thus, the research question for this literature
review is ‘What is the impact of stress management on job-related stress among nurses?'.
A search strategy is a structured and well-thought-out process to search for relevant research
literature and the search process starts with the selection of database and development of search
terms (Anthopoulos 2015). The search for literature will be done in CINAHL and PubMed and
the main rationale for choosing these two databases is that they both publish peer-reviewed
papers from the field of nursing. The search terms were created by taking cues from the research
question. The primary search terms include 'nurse', 'stress' and 'stress management'. Apart from
this primary search terms, several other synonyms were used to broaden the search process and
get more relevant papers. For example, synonyms used for stress included 'occupation stress' and
'job-related stress'. In addition, in place of stress management, other keywords like 'stress
management intervention', 'stress reduction techniques' and 'stress management program' were
also used.

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Apart from the basic search, advanced search filters were also used to get specific papers
relevant to the research question. For example, a publication date filter was used to select the
date from 2010 to 2019 and the language of the article was set to English. In addition, the
Boolean operators like 'AND' were used to combine two search terms so that only those papers
were retrieved which had both the keywords in the search process. Some examples of the
Boolean search included 'Stress management intervention' AND 'job stress' AND 'Nurse'.
Similarly, the 'Stress management program' AND 'reduction in stress in nursing was used'.
To ensure that unnecessary articles in the search process are excluded and the most
relevant papers related to the research question are retrieved, inclusion and exclusion criteria for
article selection were also developed. The following is the inclusion and exclusion criteria for
article selection:
 Only those articles were selected which reported about stress management interventions
 The search population for all the studies must be nursing staffs or nursing student
 All the studies must report about outcomes after implementation of the stress
management program
 No other employees other than nurses will be included in the review
 All articles must be published within the past 10 years
 Only articles published in English will be included
The paper retrieved after entering the search terms will be screened based on the above
inclusion and exclusion criteria and papers will be confirmed for this literature review after
full-text review of each article.
Annotated bibliography on the nursing topic