Date of Conferral

2020

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Bridgette Malchow

Abstract

AbstractMany nurses become accustomed to stressful situations and often do not recognize the signs of stress until it has in some form affected them. Nurses often lack education for recognition of signs regarding job-related stress. The practice-focused question for this doctoral project addressed whether knowledge of stress recognition increase in nurses after an evidence-based educational program (EBP) regarding signs of job- related stress.” The purpose and significance of this project was to develop, deliver and evaluate an EBP regarding recognition of signs regarding job-related stress. The project was guided by the Job Demands-Resource (JD-R) theory and Lewin’s Change Theory to focus on job demands that lead to stress and the 3 stages of change. A literature review of evidence-based practices to recognize signs of job-related stress was conducted. A synthesis matrix was used to organize the data and SPSS was used to analyze the evidence. The findings of the project were collected from 20 participants using a 10-question pre- and post-survey. The significance threshold was set at 0.05 = 5%. P value = <.001. A paired t- test was conducted to determine if there was an increase in knowledge of stress recognition in primary care nurses by comparing the pre- and postsurvey results. The results suggest that nurses’ knowledge of signs regarding job-related stress increased after participating in the project. This project will benefit primary care nurses who lack knowledge to recognize signs regarding job-related stress in hope that they will implement stress management strategies to reduce stress, resulting in positive social change.

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