I found an Interesting result in investigating the relationship between job stress and clinical competence in clinical nurses (n= 250) in seven university hospital in Iran. I found that, there was a significant positive correlation between clinical competence and occupational stress. As a general rule, it is expected clinical nurses who higher competency would have higher skills and better confidence in doing their tasks, and therefore they would experience less work- related stress. But our findings were the opposite with this general rule. What is your opinion about this finding?
Behrooz - a few potential factors may be the fact that higher competence means more responsibility and perhaps higher workloads/more complicated cases etc been entrusted to those nurses. There could also be 'perfectionism' and 'competition' at play with high competence/high achiever types.
Yes, I agree with Dean Whitehead. Before I retired, I used to be a nurse practitioner. I was very happy in the role, but used to find there was too much work and not enough time to do it in. So I think this agrees with Behrooz Rezaei's findings.
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