The Effectiveness of Time Management Training on the Amount of Nurse's Occupational Stress

Abstract

5 Abstract: Managers and professionals work in the field of health and environmental pressure that requires the skills of effective leadership and management. One of these skills is time management. This study aims for determining the impact of time management training on the amount of nurse's occupational stress components. In the current experimental study, one hospital (Heshmat Hospital) was selected throughout 14 hospitals in Rasht by a random sampling of nurses and 97 people were involved in the high-stress group after an initial selection. Then 48 people were selected by simple random sampling, which re-randomized in the two groups named experiment group (24 people) and control group (24 people). The people were initially complete an occupational stress questionnaire (Osipow) and then a six weeks 90-minute time management training session were conducted for experiment group and the questionnaires were completed one month after the re-intervention by both groups. The descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and MANCOVA inferential statistics in SPSS 18 environment were used for data analysis. Results have shown that time management training has been effective in reducing the nurse's occupational stress components and is significant by p<0.003 and the effect intensity is shown 0.42 by Eta parabola squared which indicates high effect intensity. In conclusion the research findings showed that time management training is effective in reducing nurse's occupational stress. Therefore, it is recommended time management training be involved in nurse's in-service training program.