Table 3.
Clinical stress scale results (N = 333).
| Item | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2.31 | 0.48 |
| 1. Admitting new patients makes me feel stressed. | 2.42 | 0.70 |
| 2. Communicating with doctors makes me feel stressed. | 2.18 | 0.63 |
| 3. Communicating with colleagues makes me feel stressed. | 2.04 | 0.61 |
| 4. Communicating with patients or their family members makes me feel stressed. | 2.05 | 0.56 |
| 5. I am afraid to hurt patients because of negligence while providing care (e.g., needle-stick injury, giving the wrong medicine, or not using a bed rail). | 2.30 | 0.78 |
| 6. Being unfamiliar with how to use medical instruments on patients makes me feel stressed. | 2.19 | 0.67 |
| 7. Insufficient professional knowledge and being unable to identify dangerous signs in a patient make me feel stressed. | 2.34 | 0.63 |
| 8. Performing CPR on patients is stressful. | 2.69 | 0.92 |
| 9. Writing reports is stressful. | 2.35 | 0.80 |
| 10. Night shifts, which place a burden on my body, make me feel stressed. | 2.06 | 0.83 |
| 11. The sudden change in a patient’s condition makes me feel stressed. | 2.52 | 0.82 |
| 12. Excessive workload during a fixed period is stressful. | 2.57 | 0.80 |
| 13. Work allocation problems that increase my care workload make me feel stressed. | 2.25 | 0.81 |
| 14. Fatigue and an inability to take time off to rest make me feel stressed. | 2.45 | 0.87 |
| 15. Shift work makes me feel stressed. | 2.28 | 0.83 |