- Pre-pandemic evidence on hospital occupational stress is siloed across disciplines and settings, limiting transferable insights for comprehensive staff support.
- Nurses and doctors were studied separately using differing constructs, impeding comparable measurement and evaluation of interventions.
- Advancing effective stress interventions requires cross-disciplinary collaboration, and nurse leaders are strategically positioned to convene and guide these efforts.
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont). 2026 Apr;38(4):79-91. doi: 10.12927/cjnl.2026.27822.
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to identify studies of hospital-based occupational stress prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that can offer lessons to nurse leaders in our current post-pandemic environment. A scoping review was conducted based on the Joanna Briggs Institute framework, including key phases and principles identified by Arksey and O’Malley. Evidence from different disciplines and settings has been relatively siloed. Nurses and doctors have tended to be studied separately using different constructs. Progress in developing more effective interventions to mitigate occupational stress in healthcare may require greater cross-disciplinary collaboration in which nurse leaders are well poised to lead.
PMID:42077021 | DOI:10.12927/cjnl.2026.27822
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