The Study of the Effect of Hypnosis on the Reduction of Job Stress among Nurses

Abstract

In a healthy organization, the physical and mental health of employees is considered and emphasized by
the managers as the same as production and efficiency. On the other hand, the mental health of employees
is a determining factor in the increase of efficiency in job and presentation of effective and better services
by each organization. 2. Today, human resources as the most valuable capital of organization are faced
with many problems. The experts of management and organizational psychologists pay attention to the
factors which affect the increase or decrease of human efficiency and attempt to identify these factors and
use the necessary methods in order to increase the effect of positive effects and reduce the role of
negative factors. One of these factors is job stress that has adverse and unfavorable effects on the body
and soul of human resources and decreases their efficiency. 3. Job stress is the mutual action between job
conditions and personal characteristics of the employee. Job stress refers to the adverse physical and
emotional reactions that come from interactions between employee and his workplace, so that, job
demands are more than the capabilities and sources of the employee. There are general job stressful
factors in nursing. Each of these factors has a big share in creation of stress among nurses. Mental stress
and pressure entered to these people have some consequences and in the long term leaves chronic
diseases like high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, asthma and etc. job stresses also affect the
health of people and reduce their life quality and increases the probability of injuries due to the job. Job
environments like surgery rooms, burn wards, psychiatric wards and etc. can have significant effects on
the mental health state of employees. (Winkekson) in a study on the nurses working in emergency
department, the rate of their job stress was reported at a higher level. (Jack et al). The purpose of this study is to examine the affect the cognitive hypnosis on the reduction of job stress among nurses. The
findings of hypnosis science and studies conducted in that area showed that teaching the methods of
relaxation and hypnosis as a therapeutic solution is effective in the reduction of job stress among nurses
and are effective to improve the physical and mental health of nurses.