Determinar el nivel de estrés en las estudiantes de enfermería durante el internado rotativo integral. Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. 2015

Abstract

Objective: - To determine the stress level of nursing students during their residency at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital during 2015.

Methods and Materials: - The study was quantitative and used a descriptive method. The sample consisted of 105 nursing interns from the University of Cuenca. Who did their hospital rotations at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital. The collection of the information was in a direct way through the application of Maslach Burnout Inventory Scale (MBI). The information was processed through SPSS 15.0 and Excel, the result were presented in tables of frequency and percentages.

Results:- from the total of the samples according to the levels of stress way relation to the parameters of value scale, the following result were found: in emotional fatigue 47.5% presented a moderate level of stress and 41,9% presented a high level of stress. From the total of interns, 54,3% suffered from high stress level and 25,7% suffered moderate levels of stress. In terms of personal development it has been observed that 74,3% of the total interns had high levels of stress, where has 9,5% had low levels of stress.

Conclusions: though these study significant differences among the stress value scale were found among the nursing interns as a result it is suggested to take preventative measures to decrease stress levels during the hospital rotations.

KEY WORDS: STRESS LEVEL – NURSING INTERNS – SCALE OF MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY