[Comparing stress level of woman nurses of different units of Iran university hospitals in autumn 2009]

Background: occupational stress consists physical and emotional impacts on workers and decreased efficacy is its consequence. Nursery as a main axis of the health care system involves an occupational stress needs to cover by a management system. Recent studies focused on this aim. We targeted to evaluated stress level among the nurses of Iran University Hospitals

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Material and Methods: 84 Female health nurses were evaluated by job stress brief questionnaire and divided to groups by some demographic criteria's, comparing them together based on the questionnaire score

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Results: the results have shown an intermediate level of stress among our targets. Stress had fewer level among married group. Urgency agents had a high significant amount of stress compare the others

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Conclusion: occupational stress influence efficacy of health nurses. Strategies to control personnel stress is necessary. Wards could divide nurses based on stress. Marriage had a significant effect on nurses occupational stress level. More steps may modify by learning the psycho method