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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

leadership styles, stress, reducing stressors, healthcare leaders

College

Nursing

Abstract

When I first heard about Dr. Merrill’s interest in leadership styles and impact of stress, I was intrigued with the idea of how stress can greatly influence a working and healing environment. Due to personal experiences working under various healthcare leaders, I could attest to how a stressed boss could make work and the healing environment very unpleasant and negative. While conducting a literature review, I discovered that there is an increasing burnout rate and nursing shortage and that many hospital employers are interested in reducing stressors—especially for the charge nurses (Ilhan, Durukan, Taner, Maral, and Bumin, 2007). These charge nurses—or leader nurses—significantly impact the healthcare work environment, and reducing their stress may promote a more beneficial environment in retaining nurses and in healing patients. Most importantly, there needs to be a baseline assessment so one could compare the results and analyze if certain methods were effective in reducing stress.

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