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A recent survey of UK Nurses established that stress sneaks away sex. The appraisal, conducted by the lead nurses magazine, “Nursing Times” bore witness that 44% of the 2000 nurses surveyed for the canvas felt a deterioration in their sex lives and a definate decline libido.

Stress is a significant agent in our lives and we must all recognise the damaging effect that unreasonable stress can have on ones social, emotional and intimate life. The nurse poll also evidenced that nursing is a eminent stress job that can result in physical and emotinal unhealthinesses. Indeed with well-nigh all nurses functioning above average hours and accepting extra work with nursing agencies in order to make ends meet on their hapless pay the trouble can only get worsen.

Nursing Times continues that the pressure level of economic shortages and the menace of job cuts in the NHS responsible for the nurses’ worries.

“Nurses are under pressure, devaluated and under paid. Stress is a severe subject for nurses who run the day by day gamut of violence and maltreatment from patients and relatives, as well as coping with the day-to-day pressures of having to do ever more with fewer resources because of deficit-led cost cutting,” the BBC cited Dr Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, as saying.

Furthermore, it was only last year that a RCN poll ascertained that to a higher degree, a quarter of nurses surveyed had been physically attacked at work, while nearly half had been intimidated or harassed by a manager.

“We need to tackle these issues if we are to keep nurses in the profession, while at the same time appealing to new recruits so they can go along and deliver superior patient care,” Dr. Carter said.

He said that work-related stress was to blame for 30 percent of sickness absence in the NHS - and cost the service 300-400million pounds a year.

However, Barnett added that NHS Employers had launched a drive to battle stress, which seemed to be having an effect.

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