2.)
Hardy, Sally, J. Carson, and Ben L. Thomas. Occupational Stress: Personal and Professional
Approaches. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Stanley Thornes, 1998. Print.
3.)
This book offers the general insight of how stressful certain professions are. This book also offers studies of different types of occupations corresponding to different stress levels and triggers. It also includes studies of students and stress, with a lengthy list of studies done particularly with those studying nursing.
4.)
Sally Hardy is a lecturer in Nursing.
Jerome Carson is the senior lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Manchaster School of Management.
Ben Thomas is the chief nursing advisor at the Maudsley Hospital.
All three contributors to this book have experience in settings where stress is relavent and where they were able to gather information and data among the people ho are at high risk.
5.) Key Terms:
Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI): a comprehensive measure of stress, including work-place stressors, strategies used to cope with stress, general behaviour, the individual's current state of health, both physical and mental, and job satisfication
Emotional Exhaustion: a chronic state of physical and emotional depletion that results from excessive job demands and continuous stress.
6.) Quotations:
"The study raises a very important issue. It is that student health and social care professionals experience both academic and clinical pressures, unlike non-vocational student groups." (Page 35)
A study was done to see whether or not nursing students were really under a lot of stress. The results of the study determined that nursing students are at their worst during their clinicals. Student health care professionals are under pressures that other students are not.
"While stress can be a product of working and caring for people, it is still an occupational hazard that can be controlled and managed like any other." (Page 181)
Stress is hazardous towards students, especially those studying a health care profession. This stress has the potential to lead to depression, which only builds up and continues to get worse and worse throughout the student's academic career.
In one study, nursing students were asked how their training could be made less stressful. Out of all the individuals, "29% felt individual therapy or personal tutor support" could help them achieve this. (Page 35)
In my paper, I plan on incorporating the idea that personal therapy among nursing students can help prevent a student from having suicidal or depressive behavior. Therefore, it is on a positive note that these students want the same thing, individual therapy. They perhaps also need a personal tutor who can help support them during the most difficult aspects of their academic careers, such as during clinicals and/or certain classes.
7.)
This book is beneficial to my overall research project by providing me with specific studies which conclude that nursing students are at high risk for feeling stressed out and/or burntout. I liked this book because of its studies and how it explicitly explains different stress theories with a general focus on certain occupations. I also liked this book because not only does it offer solutions to prevent student stress, but it also includes what the students believe can potentially work to help them to succeed.
8.)
This book is similar to previous books that I have research, however it includes a lot of studies. This book reminds me of Teaching Nursing: Developing a Student-centered Learning Environment. Both of these books both address that there is a problem among nursing students and it is that they are under too much stress. However, the only difference is that one of the books offers a learning approach and the other discusses why this approach is necessary.
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