Because today's nursing workforce faces a multitude of stressors, work related stress has been widely discussed. The objective of this project is to examine eating as a stress management coping strategy for nurses. To do this, the project first assessed what inpatient nurses in an urban hospital indicated were the most problematic issue in their day-to-day work activities. A content analysis of a questionnaire was then used to evaluate if nurses use eating as a coping strategy to overcome stress. Because stress on one system may potentiate failure of another system, the project utilized the conceptual framework: Modeling and Role Modeling (Erickson, Tomlin, & Swain, 1983) to guide the study. Questionnaires of 41 participants were subjected to content analysis. The results of this project were not consistent with the concepts that stressors evoke eating, or that eating is stressful. However, the project does suggest that stress is a major component of nurses' emotional state, and that needs being met play a major role in how the perceive and manage stress.
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(OCoLC)71817456
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