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R McAbee

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PubMed1995

Primary prevention of hypertension: a challenge for occupational health nurses.

1. About one in four adults in the United States has high blood pressure on the basis of a single evaluation. Hypertension is associated with an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, renal insufficiency, and peripheral vascular disease. 2. Weight loss, reduced sodium intake, reduced alcohol consumption, and exercise have documented efficacy as interventions to decrease high blood pressure. A number of intervention programs in community based settings and in health care provider practice based settings have documented that behavioral change and relevant reductions in blood pressure are feasible. 3. Occupational health nurses are in unique positions to both initiate and support intervention programs. Interventions could be conducted by individual occupational health nurses as well as sponsored by corporate employers or local occupational health nursing constituencies.

Humans↗
PubMed1994

Job stress and coping strategies among nurses: results of a self report survey.

1. Many employers do not have the resources for sophisticated investigation, development, and implementation of stress reduction programs for employee health. This does not eliminate the need for such programs. 2. Occupational health nurses can develop stress reduction programs building on individual coping strategies used by workers. A simple survey of workers could provide baseline information for the development of these programs. 3. Exercise, open atmosphere for discussion, relaxation, and taking a break were the top four coping strategies reported by nurses and non-nurse female employees. Employers could easily support stress reduction programs built on these strategies.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1991

Occupational stress and burnout in the nursing profession. A model for prevention.

1. Work overload, lack of control over one's work, non-supportive work environment, limited job opportunity, role ambiguity, rotating shift work, and machine paced work are occupational stressors that have been suggested as factors contributing to psychological disorders. 2. The model of occupational stress defined in this article utilizes organizational social support and coping strategies as buffering agents with the potential to decrease occupational stress and burnout. 3. Although this model and suggested methods for measurement of components in the model were developed for the investigation of stress in health care populations, the model can be applied to other work settings.

Burnout, Professional↗
PubMed1977

Endogenous depression improvement and REM pressure.

In the treatment of endogenous depression by rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation, depression improvement, measured on Hamilton and Global scales, correlated positively and significantly (P less than .05) with REM pressure (increase of REM sleep stimulated by REM sleep deprivation). This dose-response relationship suggests that (1) REM pressure was an indicator of a process that mediated the antidepressant effects of REM sleep deprivation, and (2) since improvement varied with stimulation of REM sleep, an unknown stimulus of REM sleep is a naturally occurring, endogenous antidepressant.

Depression↗