Abstract
Objective: To identify the factors predisposing to stress in nursing students in clinical teaching registered in the scientific literature. Methods: It consists of an Integrative Literature Review. Data were collected from publications in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) and Virtual Health Library (BVS) databases. 212 articles were selected, after applying the filters, only 18 articles were used in the study. Results:
Clinical teaching is understood as an instrument for training nursing professionals, where professional skills are developed, and techniques and procedures performed daily in the exercise of the profession are perfected. Nursing students experience high levels of stress, due to the greater proximity and permanence with patients. The factors predisposing to stress depend on everyone, encompassing factors based on personality, self-esteem and organic resistance. Nursing students are surrounded daily by conflicts, due to being in contact with human pain and suffering. Final considerations: It was found that stress is present in all periods of academic training, with a tendency to intensify with the beginning of practical clinical teaching activities. The more advanced the period the student is in, the greater his level of stress.