Pengaruh beban kerja terhadap stress perawat kamar operasi di RSUD Prof. Dr. W.Z. Johanes Kupang
Nurses get stress by various factors of the workload. workload of nurses in the operating room is influenced by factors such as long experience, strength and physical endurance, skills profesional attitude and knoledge. this study to determinate the effect of workload factors to stress on the operating room nurses in prof. Dr. W.Z. Johanes Kupang hospital. This study used cross - sectional design of the 36 samples that worked as a nurse in the operating room. The results were analyzed by using Kendall's Tau - b Test to examined the influence of workload factors to the operating room nurse stress. The result showed that have significant effect the physicalstress on the operating room nurse are long experience (p=0,041) and skills (0,029). The results showed factors that have a significant effect to the psycological stress is a long experience factor (p=0,023) and the effect of workload on social stress are profesional attitude (0,047) and knowledge (0,047). The conclusion of this study (in the year 2013) that the work load factors of long experience has more influence on the phisical and psychological stress. This research advice to avoid stress, operating room nurses is expected to follow the training or seminar about operating room to enhance the skills of operating rooms, self-train to remain calm and not panic in coping of critical patient and well-read and following the socialization process of existing SOPs in operating room. Keywords : workload, stress, nurse in operation room