A COMPARISON OF THE PERCEPTIONS NURSES AND CARDIAC PATIENTS FROM BOTH DISEASE AND HOSPITAL STRESSORS

Background and Recent studies have revealed that stressors can originate from either disease or hospital environment, in cardiac patients, which are perceptible by nurses. However, it seems that nurses take actions by their perceptions when facing stressors. This Research was conducted to study and compare the perceptions of cardiac patients and nurses from stressors of disease and hospital environment at Vaseee Hospital in Sabzevar, Iran. Methods and Materials: In this cross-sectional descriptive- analytical study, nurses and patients admitted to the cardiology ware were considered as the study population, out of which 18 nurses doing rounds in this ward and 141 patients were included in the study. Patients were selected through convenient non- probability sampling. Personal information forms and stressors questionnaires (adapted from kanali 1992, Hikila 1999 and Voliser 1975) were given to both groups for data collection. Relevant data were analyzed using Mann whitney and chi- square. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the nurses, and patents, Perceptions of stressors (p....