THE INFLUENCE OF JOB DEMANDS ON STRESS AMONG NURSES IN BANJARMASIN HOSPITAL

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Ayu Prima Kartika
Rendhar Putri Hilintang

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Background: A competitive work environment usually makes the workforce try to keep up with their situation and ignore factor stress. However, these stressors affect their work and life. Nursing is a challenging job because the nurse is one of those on duty maintaining patient health; in addition to the increasing number of hospitals increases, Nurses in hospitals may face more problems in their work when management is faced with competitive pressures from other hospitals. Job demands become a stressor and are overloaded. Overload occurs when someone has a lot of work compared to the ability to handle it, and task demands include shift work, physical workload, mental workload, and work time. Objective: This research aims to determine the relationship between Task demands (mental workload) and work stress on hospital nurses in Banjarmasin. Method: This type of research is observational with a cross-sectional design. The research sample was 97 people. The independent variable is task demands (mental workload), and the variable bound is nursing work stress. Results: The study shows a connection between task demands (p=0.000) and work stress among hospital nurses. City Banjarmasin Conclusion: Conclusion that there is a connection between task demands (mental workload) and work stress. Advice given is managing anger and time well, providing service counseling, redesigning work to suit one 's abilities, and redesigning the work environment.

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Kartika, A. P., & Hilintang, R. P. (2024). THE INFLUENCE OF JOB DEMANDS ON STRESS AMONG NURSES IN BANJARMASIN HOSPITAL. JOURNAL of HEALTH, 3(2), 54–56. Retrieved from https://banuainstitute.org/JOHE/article/view/109
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