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Stress is a serious concern in the nursing profession. Stress among nurses is the result of exposure to a mix of working environment and personal factors, arises when nurses try to manage patient’s nursing care within the scope of nursing. The aim of the study was to assess the perceived stress and coping strategies of nurses working in the intensive care unit. The study design is quantitative study (descriptive design). To provide precise and representative data, a non-probability (purposive) sample was chosen. The total number of nurses participating in the study was (190) nurses from different teaching hospitals in Al-Najaf city. The results of the study showed that the average level of perceived stress was (20.5), and the majority of the study sample (69.5%) had a moderate level of perceived stress, while coping strategies (93.7%) were an adoptive response. According to the results of the current study and its discussion, the study concluded that the Perceived stress among the nurses working in the ICU was moderate and concluded that the coping strategies were an adaptive response. The current study recommends conducting a larger study of the remaining surgical and medical wards, and recommends providing a resting place for the staff in the intensive care unit, in addition to providing psychological courses to control the emotions of the workers in the intensive care unit and provide them with psychological support.
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Melaku, L., & Bulcha, G. (2021). Evaluation and Comparison of Medical Students Stressors and Coping Strategies among Undergraduate Preclinical and Clinical Year Students Enrolled in Medical School of ArsiUniversity, Southeast Ethiopia. Education Research International, 2021, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9202156
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Berl, A. (2020). Personality Traits within the Field of Nursing and Desired Field of Work (Doctoral dissertation).
Devi, K., Hananingrum, P., & Wahyudiono, Y. D. A. (2023). Why Does Work Stress Occur in Nurses?. The Indonesian Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 12(1), 95-103.
Fasoi, G., Patsiou, E. C., Stavropoulou, A., Kaba, E., Papageorgiou, D., Toylia, G., ... & Kelesi, M. (2021). Assessment of nursing workload as a mortality predictor in Intensive Care Units (ICU) using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) scale. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1), 79.
Fink, G. 2019. “Stress: Definition and History.” Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (January 2010):549–55. doi: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00076-0.
Folkman, S. (2020). Stress: appraisal and coping. In Encyclopedia of behavioral medicine (pp. 2177-2179). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Ganesan, Y., P, T., FauzanNorsiah, & Y, O. (2018). A Study on Stress Level and Coping Strategies among Undergraduate Students. Journal of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, 3(2), 37–47.
Hao, C., Zhu, L., Zhang, S., Rong, S., Zhang, Y., Ye, J., & Yang, F. (2020). Serial multiple mediation of professional identity, and
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Kibria, M. G. (2018). Prevalence of stress and coping mechanism among staff nurses of intensive care unit in a selected hospital. International Journal of Neurosurgery, 2(1), 8.
Labrague, L. J., McEnroe-Petitte, D. M., Gloe, D., Thomas, L., Papathanasiou, I. V., & Tsaras, K. (2017). A literature review on stress and coping strategies in nursing students. Journal of Mental Health, 26(5), 471480.
Alharbi, H., & Alshehry, A. (2019). Perceived stress and coping strategies among ICU nurses in government tertiary hospitals in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study. Annals of Saudi medicine, 39(1), 48-55.
Morales Rodríguez, F. M. (2021). Fear, stress, resilience and coping strategies during covid 19 in Spanish university students. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115824
O'Connor, D. B., Thayer, J. F., & Vedhara, K. (2021). Stress and health: A review of psychobiological processes. Annual review of psychology, 72, 663-688.
Osuagwu, U. L., Xu, M., Piya, M. K., Agho, K. E., & Simmons, D. (2022). Factors associated with long intensive care unit (ICU) admission among inpatients with and without diabetes in South Western Sydney public hospitals using the New South Wales admission patient data collection (2014–2017). BMC Endocrine Disorders, 22(1), 1-10.
Raja Lexshimi, R., Tahir, S., Santhna, L. P., & Md Nizam, J. (2007). Prevalence of stress and coping mechanism among staff nurses in the intensive care unit. Med Health, 2(2), 146-53.
Tsai, P. C., Lin, J. H., & Hsu, H. C. (2019). Exploring sleep quality, spiritual health, and related factors in nurses in the intensive care unit. Hu Li Za Zhi, 66(4), 49-59.
Wang, J., Xiao, Q., Zhang, C., Jia, Y., & Shi, C. (2020). Intensive care unit nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers regarding early mobilization of patients. Nursing in critical care, 25(6), 339345.
Shen, X., Zou, X., Zhong, X., Yan, J., & Li, L. (2020). Psychological stress of ICU nurses in the time of COVID-19. Critical Care, 24, 1-3.