GAMBARAN STRES KERJA PERAWAT INSTALASI GAWAT DARURAT DI RUMAH SAKIT WILAYAH SLEMAN

Background: The Emergency Department (ED) is the entrance to every service in the hospital that is on duty for 24 hours and serves to provide the first service to patients. Emergency department nurses are vulnerable to job stress due to the dynamic and unpredictable work environment. Job stress can also come from work-related stressors, individual characteristics, and extra organizational stressors. There has not been much research on work stress among emergency room nurses at Yogyakarta hospital. Objective: To determine the description of work stress of emergency room nurses in Sleman area hospitals based on the characteristics of respondents. Method: The type of research used was descriptive analytic research with cross sectional design. The population in this study were 122 nurses who worked in four emergency departments of Sleman hospitals. The sampling technique used total sampling. Data collection used Juniar (2005) instrument modified by Jusnimar (2012). Data were analyzed using Chi-square. Results: The results showed that the overall work stress of emergency room nurses was at a moderate level (63,1%). There was a significant difference in the average work stress of nurses in the emergency room of RSA UGM with RS PKU Muhammadiyah Gamping (p=0,003 <0.05). Based on characteristics of respondents, the Chi-square test results of nurses' work stress based on age, gender, educational status, marital status, length of work and clinical nurse ladder were p=0,654; p=0,471; p=0,894; p=0,67; p=0,608; p=0,958; respectively. Conclusion: The work stress of nurses working in the emergency room is at a moderate level. The description of the stress experienced by emergency room nurses is an input for policy makers in determining strategies or policies to reduce the work stress of emergency room nurses. Keywords: Emergency room; nurse; work stress.