Organizational stress and ways to cope with organizational stress for healthcare personnel: Sample of Serinhisar Public Hospital

Stressnowadays emerges as a phenomenon thatis feltby everyone in almostany environment. People, who spend most of their time in workplace,are most exposed tostress. In this study, thestress levelsof health personnelworking inthe hospital environmentandworking conditions are aimed to be revealed. In addition, the possible effects working conditions on differences between employees such as gender, age, marital status, income, education are also investigated. For this purpose, a survey is conducted on 100 healthcare personnel in Denizli, Serinhisar , 85 of whom attended the survey. 15 people did not want to take the survey.It is observed that healthcare personnel mostly use "Self-confident approach" and at the least use "surrender approach"to cope with stress. The study shows that criteria such as age, marital status, education level, income level, working hours, service life, choice of profession, choice of working department, weekly working hours, finding the profession self-fulfilling does not have an important effect on stress level of personnel. It is observed that personnel who are content with the working conditions show more "surrender approach" that the ones who are not. Other than this, no difference is observed between the contentment and the ways to cope with stress With regard to outcomes the study based on the survey among healthcare personnel,possible suggestions to reduce organizational stress are proposed Key Words: Stress, Organizational Stress, Health Sector