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Abstract
Hospital is one of the sector in which there is always stress, because other than the daily activities which include like patients visiting doctors for daily checkup, or for small treatments. There can be emergency situations where many people are admitted at same time due to major accidents, or a major surgery which require a lot of preparation, time and hard work. These stresses affect the nurses in their professional and personal life. Although they work in shifts they spent half of their day in hospitals standing taking care of the patients without any rest or food. This makes them tired and worn out. Stress has a direct effect on commitment of nurses. If they are stressed, they may not care for the patients or may not be willing to take responsibility, and not be time conscious (Hans & Sathyan, 2016).
Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the relationship between occupational stress and organizational commitment among staff nurses through: assessing level of occupational stress among staff nurses, assessing level of organizational commitment among staff nurses, and finding out the relationship between occupational stress and organizational commitment among staff nurses.
A descriptive correlational design was used, to carry out this study. The study was conducted at Ashmoun fever hospital which affiliated to the Ministry of Health & Population (MOHP). This study was conducted at all departments (seven departments) in ashmoun fever hospital It is located at Menofiya governorate. The subjects of this study included all the staff nurses who working in all departments in Ashmoun fever hospital during the time of the study. Their total number were (80) staff nurses.
Data were collected using two tools namely; occupational stress scale and organizational commitment questionnaire. In addition to a section for staff nurses personnel characteristics.The field work lasted from February 2021 to the end of March 2021.All administrative and ethical considerations were fulfilled .
The main study findings were as follows:
• More than two thirds of study participants had high level of total occupational stress.
• Near half of study participants had high level of total organizational commitment.
• There was significant statistical relationships between participants’ level of total occupational stress, their marital status, and their current work department.
• There was significant statistical relationships between participants’ level of total organizational commitment, gender, marital status, and their current work department.
• There were significant statistical negative correlations between participants’ occupational stress, their age, experience, and unit experience.
• There were insignificant statistical correlations between participants’ organizational commitment and their age, experience, and unit experience.
• There was a statistically significant negative correlation between staff nurses’ occupational stress dimensions and organizational commitment dimensions.
• There was a highly significant statistical moderate negative correlation between study participants’ total their occupational stress and organizational commitment.
Conclusion
In the light of the study finding, it be concluded that: more than two thirds of studied staff nurses had high level of total occupational stress. Also, near half of them had high level of total organizational commitment. Further more, There were a statistically significant negative correlation between staff nurses’ occupational stress dimensions and organizational commitment dimensions. In addition ,there was a highly significant statistical moderate negative correlation between study participants’ total organizational commitment and their occupational stress.