Background: Work conditions in the form of work situations that include facilities, regulations applied, social relations of cooperation between officers which can cause discomfort for workers. If the number of tasks is not proportional to the ability of both physical and expertise and the time available then it will be a source of stress. This study was conducted to discuss systematically the literature which analyzes the stress factors in nurses in hospitals intensive care units (ICU).

Subjects and Methods: The data of this study are secondary data derived from literature from 4 database sources, namely Elsevier, Proquest, Summon UI and Wiley Online Library. Search using keywords nurse staff AND stress factor AND intensive care unit AND hospital AND Asia as well as contributions to the literature which is the subject of this research are nurses, articles that discuss English and complete, published from September 2009 to September 2019, in Asia region and open access.

Results: The search process and filtering literature produced 6 (six) complete articles.

The journal show that internal and external factors can cause stress on nurses simultaneously, external factors that cause stress to nurses, the person who had a type of personality was positively correlated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), handle stress experienced by several types of coping, ICU are the main cause of stress in nurses.

Conclusion: The stress factor on nurses in the hospital's ICU can be divided into several large groups, namely Internal and External, in the internal sense that is from within the nurse's personal and external originating from the hospital's environment or management

Keywords: stress factor; nurse; intensive care unit; perceived stress; coping.

Correspondence:

Firman Kurnianto. Program Studi Kajian Administrasi Rumah Sakit, Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat, Universitas Indonesia. Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat, Kecamatan Beji, Kota Depok, Jawa Barat, Kode Pos 12345.                                            Email: firman_kurnianto@yahoo.com Mobile: 081380026855