Sundar Paul D S’s scientific contributions

Staff nurses working in the ICU are at the forefront of patient care, responsible for monitoring patients' conditions, administering treatments, and providing emotional support to both patients and their families. Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are critical departments in healthcare settings that cater to patients with severe, life-threatening illnesses or injuries. Given the potential consequences of stress, fatigue, and burnout on nurses' well-being and patient care, healthcare institutions have started recognizing the need for preventive measures and support systems. The objective of the study was to assess the perception of stress, fatigue and burnout among nurses working in ICU, to correlate the perception of stress, fatigue and burnout among nurses working in ICU and to associate the perception of stress, fatigue and burnout among nurses working in ICU with their demographic variables. The research approach was quantitative and the research design was non-experimental descriptive research design. The samples were selected by non– probability method and the sample size was 60 staff nurses working in ICU. The study was conducted at SRM General Hospital and Research Centre, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu District. The study finding concludes that majority of level of perception of stress among the staff nurses, 50(83.33%) had average stress, 7(11.67) had high stress and 3(5.0%) had less stress. In relation to level of fatigue shows that among the staff nurses, 29(48.34%) had less fatigue, 26(43.33%) had average fatigue and 5(8.33%) had high fatigue respectively. Regarding level of burnout shows that among the staff nurses, 54(90%) had average burnout, 4(6.67%) had high burnout and 2(3.33%) had less burnout. Positive correlation was observed between stress and burnout. Hence, there is a need of hospitals administration to emphasize on the strategies which can increase the satisfaction of the nurses decrease the level of stress, fatigue and ultimately decreases the job burnout.