The Influence of work load faktors to the operating room nurse stress in Prof. DR. W.Z. Johannes Kupang Hospital
Nurses get stress by various faktors of the workload. Workload of nurses in the operating room is influenced by faktors such as long experience, strength and physical endurance, skills, professional attitude and knowledge. This study to determine the effect of workload faktors to stress on the operating room nurses in Prof. Dr. W. Z. Johannes 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 faktors to the operating room nurse stress.The results showed faktors that have significant effect the physical stress on the operating room nurse are long experience (p = 0.041) and skills (0.029). The result showed faktors that have a significant effect to the psycological stress is long experience faktor (p = 0.023) and the effect of workload on social stress are professional attitude (0.047) and knowledge (0.047).The study was ini 2013. The conclusions was the long experience more influence on the physical 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 patients and well-read and following the socialization process of existing SOPs in operating room.