Course: Health Assessment
Module 5: Stress
Module Goals
After completing this module, students will be able to do the following:
• Accurately complete and document a focused exam for a client with abdominal pain
• Describe stress in the workplace for nurses and provide recommendations for healthy coping
• Analyze how stress impacts one’s own life and identify healthy coping strategies
Overview
As nurses, we all have had a case that defined you as a nurse. This is usually a case with a bad or potential bad outcome. How has this case affected you and your practice? How do you deal with stress?
Stress affects all body systems and can make you quite ill. As nurses, we want to take care of our patients, but do we actually take care of ourselves?
In this Module, you will be exploring stress and how it effects your job, and life.
Goals Alignment
• University Mission Based Outcomes – 2, 3
• Program Learning Goals – 1, 7
• Course Learning Objectives – 1, 2, 5
Professional Standards
• AACN Essential I: Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
• AACN Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety
• AACN Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes
• AACN Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values
• AACN Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
Learning Materials
• Binkley, L. (2017). Bates’ guide to physical examination and history-taking (12th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 978-1469893419. Read Chapter 3. Review Chapter 11.
Additional Resources:
• Das, S., & Baby, P. (2014). Correlation between organizational stress and job satisfaction among registered nurses in selected hospital. Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, 4(1), 45-49.
• Maloney, C. (2012). Critical incident stress debriefing and pediatric nurses: An approach to support the work environment and mitigate negative consequences. Pediatric Nursing, 38(2), 110-3.
• Mealer, M. L., Shelton, A., Berg, B., Rothbaum, B., & Moss, M. (2007). Increased prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in critical care nurses. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 175(7), 693-7.
• Templeton, D. (2015, Feb 27). Hospital treats nursing stress with ‘mindfulness’ workshops. McClatchy – Tribune News Service.
• American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA). (2018). Holistic stress management for nurses.
• American Psychological Association (APA). (2018). Stress effects on the body.
