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Work-related stress is among the major challenges facing contemporary nursing, impacting both the wellbeing of healthcare staff and the quality and safety of patient care. Nurses are one of the professions that are particularly prone to long-term stress, due to the nature of their work, which involves constant exposure to illness, suffering, and death. Furthermore, they are responsible for patients' health and lives, often have to make rapid clinical decisions, and work in conditions of staff shortages and limited organizational resources (, ). Jennings points out that nursing has been recognized as a highly stressful profession since the 1960s, and the main sources of stress include patient care, decision-making, professional responsibility, and the need to adapt to organizational changes (). Stress, as defined by Lazarus, is a particular relationship between a person and their environment, perceived by the person as demanding or exceeding their adaptive resources, and threatening their wellbeing. In the context of nursing, this means that identical working conditions may be interpreted differently by different individuals; however, chronic exposure to occupational stressors significantly increases the risk of burnout, psychosomatic disorders, sick leave and resignation from work (, ).