An analysis of work-related stress in medical nurses.

In the European Union, work-related stress represents the second health problem relating to professional activity after spinal cord injuries, affecting 28% of employees and being one of the most common problems in the workplace (Panagopoulou E. et all, 2006).Within the same profession of nursery, the specificity of the workplace leads to differentiations in levels of psychical stress and factors responsible for it: the work/family interface is more acute for nurses which work in shifts; for surgery nurses, the organizational climate is a veritable stress factor, while the interpersonal relationships are more important to nurses working in teams; other types of nurses present mostly with symptoms such as tiredness, while nurses in surgery wards complain more of mental tiredness than laboratory nurses.