Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background & Objectives: nowdays in daily life stress is a fact that cannot be denied from which it is impossible to separate .major stressor in individual life is job and nursing is one of the stressful professions. Because job stress causes physical and necessary to take emotional exhaustion and decreasing job efficiency ,it is some measure to subside it. Material & Method: the research carried out aiming of determining job stress in nursing personnel. The subjects of this descriptive research were 154 nurses how had the qualifications of job research unit at educational and medical centers medicine of north Khorasan using stratified random sampling. Data affiliated to school including personal and job information, degree through questionnaire of job stress which was completed by research unit. For the purposes of data analysis software, SPSS 15 depending on the appropriateness of the methods of descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t test, ANOVA and post hoc Tukey test was used. Result: major findings of this research showed that 62 percent of research units reported job stress with low amount, 30 percent job stress with medium amount and 8 percent job stress with high amount. Conclusion: the decrease in job stress can be the result the high application of coping strategies that need further studies.