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Stress Management For Nurses: Controlling the Whirlwind
Author(s) -
Kivisto Janet,
Couture Roger T.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1997.tb00512.x
Subject(s) - whirlwind , stress management , variety (cybernetics) , coping (psychology) , psychological intervention , psychology , stress (linguistics) , repertoire , intervention (counseling) , nursing , applied psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , computer science , engineering , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , acoustics
This paper proposes that nurses can manage stress in their lives through a well‐integrated, flexible program. A person's stress reaction is compared to a whirlwind, with negative outcomes that may vary from mild to devastating. The emphasis here is that these negative consequences can be minimized by applying different levels of intervention strategies to each phase in the progression of the stress reaction. A variety of strategies for coping with stress are presented here from which a person may select and build a personal repertoire of interventions for stress management.