| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 醫學研究所 === 94 === Nursing work is a career with challenge. Because of different emergency situations, patients with variant diseases, and requests from the family of patients, nurses are facing a lot of pressure on their works. These pressures may affect their health, further, decrease the quality of nursing care and lower the satisfaction about their jobs. The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between the work stress and intention to quit for new nursing staff of general medical and surgical ward in medical center. A total of 187 participants were recruited from three public medical centers located at northern, southern and central of Taiwan through a purposed sampling procedure. And data were collected throught structive questionnaire. The data is analyzed with SPSS Window 12.0 edition. The results of the study showed : 1. The new nursing staffs who worked in the general medical and surgical ward had medium scores of working stress and medium to low scores of intention to quit. 2. Work stresses were significant different in terms of participants’ educational levels, working years, and salary levels. 3. There are no significant relationships were found between personal data and intention to quit. 4. Work stress had significant positive relationship with intention to quit.
The result of the study suggests that for helping the new nursing staff to facing and solving the work stress, a clinic supervising system and supporting groups should be implemented in the medical center. Meantime, in order to enforce the capacity against the stress, stress relief methods should be included in pre-training course for new nursing staff.
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