ASSESSMENT OF JOB RELATED STRESS AND ITS PEREDICTORS AMONG NURSES WORKING IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS OF WEST SHOA ZONE, OROMIA REGION, ETHIOPIA, 2018

Background: Job stress is prevalent problem among nurses working in public Hospitals as they deal with large number of patients with variety conditions and work over load. Therefore, if it is not properly managed stress leads to high levels of employee, illness, absenteeism, high turnover, and decreased productivity that compromise provision of quality service to clients. However little has been addressed job related stress and its predicting factors in the study area
Objective: To assess the level of job related stress, and predicting factors among Nurses working in Public hospitals of West Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, 2018. Method: Institutional based Cross-sectional study design supplemented with qualitative study design was used. A structured self-administered questionnaire was use to collect data from study participants from February 30,to march 30,2018. Study population was all nurses who are working in randomly selected in Public Hospitals in West Shoa Zone and sample size was 180 nurses from the six hospitals. The data were entered into info.3. and analyzed by SPSS window software 21 version. Descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution and measure of central tendency and variability were computed. Univariate and multiple logistic regressions were used to identify the association between dependent and independent variables. Results: A total of 180 nurses working in West Zone public hospitals were given the questionnaire, and the response rate was 98.3 % (177).The study indicated that 87(49.2%);95%CI:,42.4%-56.5%) of nurses were occupationally stressful.