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P A McLin

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Stress management: a program designed to facilitate coping.

1. Continual exposure to work-related stressors compounds nurses' workloads, increases their stress levels, and places increased demands on their abilities to adapt. 2. Nurses need to learn and routinely use coping measures to prevent exhaustion and burnout. 3. An in-house stress management program can help nurses learn to cope with constant exposure to work-related stressors, halt the cyclic process of stress, prevent burnout, and decrease turnover.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

Continuing education in gerontological nursing.

Programs are needed to evaluate staff because more elderly with multiple health-care problems are being hospitalized. Current formal training programs do not always have gerontology content based on up-to-date standards. Stimulation exercises give healthy young and middle-aged health-care workers an idea of challenges confronting the elderly with loss of mobility, vision, hearing, or paralysis. A survey of staff nurses indicated that most had difficulty differentiating physical and psychosocial changes attributed to the normal aging process from pathological manifestation. Awareness of the biological, developmental, and psychosocial theories of aging provide health-care workers a greater understanding of rationale for a specific treatment program.

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Stress management: a program designed to facilitate coping.

Continual exposure to work-related stressors compounds nurses' workloads, increases their stress levels, and places increased demands on their abilities to adapt. Nurses need to learn and routinely use coping measures to prevent exhaustion and burnout. This article describes the assessment, plan, implementation, and evaluation of an in-house stress management continuing education program to aid staff members in halting the cyclic process of stress.

Adaptation, Psychological↗