Key Interventions to Target Work Related Stress among Nurses: Overview

Work related stress is the adverse reaction as a result of excessive work pressure. As new diseases such as Corona virus, Ebola, Lassa fever, Monkey pox, etc evolves each day, so technology and new skills to tackle such diseases are required. In addition to clinical nursing care, the need to learn and practice how to use modern equipment in patients’ care to combat such diseases imposes more stress on the nurses. The world population is also on the increase, hence the need for healthcare services is also increasing. Contrarily, there are (six) 6 million global nurses’ shortage presently. The recent Covid 19 pandemic is also putting on more stress on the nursing workforce forcing many nurses to leave their job as a result of work-related stress. The study aimed at investigating key interventions that will reduce work relate and enhances nurses work performance.