Assessment of Stress Factors for Nursing Student Toward Training in the Critical Areas of Princess Basma Hospital

Background: Stress has been defined as a barrier to concentration, problem-solving, decision making, and other necessary abilities for students' learning; it also has some symptoms and illnesses in the students such as depression and anxiety. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess Stress for nursing students at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) toward training in the critical areas of Princess Basma Hospital. A study design: A cross-sectional descriptive study was used in this study. Setting: conducted in Princess Basma educational hospital in three months from November 2015 until January 2016. Materials and Methods: a purposive sample to select the student (103) from three academic levels. An interviewing questionnaire to assess factors of stress related to workload, Factors of stress related to lack of support and involvement, Stress factors related to patient and family and scale of 1 to 5 describe your satisfaction of being a critical area nurse. Findings: The study results revealed that shortage of staff (2.17±0.39) and lack of time to spend with the patients (2.01±0.77) also revealed that support from college was the most stressing factor (2.64±0.39) and Results indicate that “patients' families making unreasonable demand” was the highly estimated stress factors (2.18±0.67). while study sample participants are having a high satisfaction level about becoming a future nurse in the critical areas (2.52±0.60). Conclusion: The study concluded that shortage of staff, lack of support from the college, “patients' families making unreasonable demand” and “being blamed for anything that goes wrong were the most stressing factor for the participants. The study recommended to design and implement health promotion program for all students nursing college at Jordan University of Science and Technology about prevention of Stress factors toward training in the critical areas.