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The nursing profession is heavily plagued with occupational stress. The stress nurses encounter in the clinical setting can result in physical, emotional, social and spiritual changes. In the operating theatre, nurses assist surgeons during surgery, observe the overall condition of patients and care for those at risk of developing a critical condition during surgery to prevent any complications from arising. An operating theatre work milieu is problematic in terms of patient safety and is closely associated with elevated stress.

This study sought to explore events from outside and within the operating theatres of a teaching hospital in Ghana causing stress in the nurses.

A sample of 12 operating theatre nurses was drawn from the Teaching Hospital using a purposive sampling technique. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview guide and the study employed a descriptive qualitative …