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This study identifies the Stressors and coping strategies of nursing staff (students, trained staff and those who had left the profession before qualification) in a variety of ward specialisms The research instruments included an open-ended interview concerning pre-nursing experience, perceived stressors and satisfactions, and ways of coping, and psychometric tests of self-esteem, assertion, ways of coping and personality The five most frequently cited Stressors were understaffing, conflict with nurses, dealing with death and dying, overwork and conflict with doctors Experience of stressors was related to role and seniority of respondents, with different aspects of the same stressor differentially affecting nurses at different levels of experience Coping strategies also depended on experience Trained staff showed more use of problem-focused ways of coping, whilst students and leavers relied more on emotion-focused strategies to deal with stressful situations These differences were related to personality characteristics of respondents and to self-esteem as well as to situational characteristics of the stressful episode Social support was important in tunes of work-related stress, with students in particular making good use of peer group support Respondents were generally lacking in assertiveness and high in anxiety.c11
Question 1. How accurate is ultrasonography in detecting renal calculi?
Question 2. Please explain the most effective way to manage a case of intrauterine fetal unilateral hydronephrosis in the 32nd week of pregnancy.
Question 3. In renal failure, why does oedema first occur in the periorbital area and nowhere else?
Question 4. How does sodium valproate decrease serum urea concentration and GI bleed increases it?
Question 5. 1. What clinical information can be obtained by checking the blood urea nitrogen (BUN) level that cannot be obtained by checking the blood urea and serum creatinine alone?
2. What is the signifying difference between blood urea and BUN?
Question 6. 1. Does uraemia cause dysentery with blood and mucus mixed with the stools?
2. Is it correct to use the term 'uraemic dysentery'?
3. Does uraemia cause finger clubbing?
Question 7. What are the causes of a low serum creatinine?
Question 8. Why does oliguria occur in the early stages of acute tubular necrosis (ATN)?
Question 9. Is renal impairment induced by lithium therapy in bipolar affective disorders irreversible? How often does it occur?
Question 10. Can you please explain why a patient with chronic renal failure (CRF) might present with either oliguria or polyuria?