The thing that has nurses stressed out is that there are too many things to do and a short amount of time to do them in. I know that I had my own nursing tasks and then other people's nursing tasks as well due to tightening staff. I was overwhelmed with so much to do and I was totally stressed out. What helped me to reduce my stress is to make a list of things that I wanted to do when I got off from work and that seemed to help reduce my stress a lot.