A RESEARCH PROTOCOL OF AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON IMPACT OF INTERVENTION PACKAGE ON STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG NURSES WORKING AT TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL.

BACKGROUND- Stress is a part of everyday life for health professionals such as nurse’s physicians and hospital administrators. Review of literature has reviled that there are various factors responsible for stress among nurses working in hospital areas.The researcher intends to understand the nurses’ experiences and perceptions related to stress & stressors and develop an interventional package on stress management related to stressors. With this intervention package nurses will be understand how stress at work can be effectively managed, reduced, or prevented in order to enhance the health of the nurses, as well as improving their work behavior. Methodology:- A quantitative approach using one group pretest and post-test design has been planned in order to accomplish the main objective of this study. A non probability convenience sampling technique will be used to select 300 registered nurses from different working area of Krishna Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Karad. Selected Nurses should attend 6 sessions of stress management intervention package each for 30 minutes once in a week. Discussion - aim of this research study protocol is to evaluate the impact of intervention package on stress management among nurses working at tertiary care hospital.Findings of this study will be greatly beneficial to the nurses who can take steps to avoid aggravating their burnout levels and to the patients, they will receive a quality nursing care from highly satisfied and blissful nurses.