Date of Award
Spring 1989
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Nursing
Abstract
Worker compensation claims filed for stress related disorders have become common place in the 1980s. The cost of stress related injuries or illnesses can be a financially and emotionally expensive part of doing business. Nursing is, by its very nature, an occupation subject to a high degree of stress. The emotional atmosphere in which nurses work profoundly affects their job satisfaction, job performance, and their emotional and physical well-being. Based on experiences in Wisconsin it would be an overstatement to say that stress related disorder claims are a critical problem at this time; nonetheless, today's developing trends could easily become a crisis for the nurse administrator tomorrow. Nurse administrators must be knowledgeable enough about the effects of stress to use it to their advantage when they can, yet knowledgeable enough to mitigate its dysfunctional manifestations. It is incumbent upon nurse administrators to be cognizant of the environment in which their employees work and strive to mitigate those factors with points of intervention to counteract the adverse effects of occupational stress.
Recommended Citation
Podoll, Judith A., "Workers' Compensation Claims and Stress Disorders" (1989). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 3522.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/3522