The Stress in Nurse Education questionnaire ( Rhead, 1995) is a modified version of the Nurse Stress Scale ( Gray-Toft and Anderson, 1981) which incorporates academic stressors and was designed specifically for use within nurse education. The questionnaire comprises 32 items that describe stressful situations. Sixteen items describe clinical situations and another sixteen items describe academic situations. A 4-point Likert scale (0–3; not stressful to extremely stressful) is to measure the intensity of stress associated with each item. A total stress score is obtained by summing responses to the 32 items, with a possible range of scores form 0–96. Clinical and academic stress sub-scale scores can be obtained by summing the relevant item scores. Cronbach’s alpha for the overall scale for this study was 0.885.