Relationship between Head Nurses’ Time Management Skills and Work Place Stress

Abstract

Introduction: Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems that work together to help nurse managers get more value out of their time with the aim of improving the quality of their life. This study aimed was to investigate the relationship between head nurses time management skills and work place stress through; assess time management skills among head nurses. Assess work place stressor among head nurses and Finding out relationship between time management skills and level of stress among head nurses. Subjects & Methods; Descriptive correlational design was conducted at two hospitals Ain Shams University Hospitals & El Demerdash Surgical hospital. The study sample was recruited from the above mentioned departments of the two hospitals. It consisted of all available head nurses working in inpatients departments and units at the time of study. Their total number was 65 head nurses, 30 from the Ain Shams University Hospitals, and 35 from the & El Demerdash Surgical hospital. Tools; personal characteristics sheet for head nurses, Time management skills questionnaire sheet, Delegation questionnaire, Time interrupter (wasters') questionnaire and Expended nursing Stress scale. Results: There was negative correlation between time management score of the studied head nurses and their delegation score and work place stress scores. Conclusion: There was negative correlation between time management score and studied head nurses work place stress score. There was positive correlation between time management score of the