Exploring nurses' personal dignity, global self-esteem and work satisfaction

Sturm, Bonnie A.; Dellert, Jane Cerruti

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“…There is surprisingly little research on the self-esteem of nurses as a professional group (Sturm and Dellert 2016). The only relevant study that we can find using the Rosenberg Scale-our preferred measure-is by Peterson-Graziose et al 2013, which showed that poorer levels of self-esteem predicted attrition of American nurses from Associate Degree programmes.…”

Section: The Rosenberg Self-esteem Inventory (Rsei)mentioning

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Personality, Work-Life Balance, Hardiness, and Vocation: A Typology of Nurses and Nursing Values in a Special Sample of English Hospital Nurses

Bagley

Abubaker

Sawyerr

2018

Administrative Sciences

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This initial report of a longitudinal study of 192 English hospital nurses measured Nursing Values (the 6Cs of nursing); Personality, Self-Esteem and Depression; Burnout Potential; Work-Life Balance Stress; “Hardy Personality”; and Intention to Leave Nursing. Correlational, component, and cluster analysis identified four groups: “The Soldiers” (N = 79), with medium scores on most measures, who bravely “soldier on” in their nursing roles, in the face of numerous financial cuts to the National Health Service, and worsening nurse–patient ratios; “Cheerful Professionals” (N = 54), coping successfully with nursing roles, and a variety of challenges, in upwardly mobile careers; “High Achievers” (N = 39), senior nurses with strong profiles of a “hardy personality”, and commitment to fundamental nursing values; and “Highly Stressed, Potential Leavers” (N = 20), with indicators of significant psychological distress, and difficulty in coping with nursing role challenges. We have initiated a program of co-counselling and social support for this distressed group, by nurses who are coping more successfully with multiple challenges. We discuss the role of nurse educators in fostering nursing values, developing and supporting a “hardy personality” and emotional resilience in recruits to nursing. This study is framed within the disciplinary approach of Critical Realism, which identifies the value basis for research and dialogue in developing strategies for social change. The importance of this research is that: (a) it is part of the new thrust in nursing research, applying Critical Realist theory and methodology to research on nursing stress; (b) it has established, through network sampling, a group of nurses who can be supportive of each other in their stressful careers; (c) it establishes the reliability and potential validity of a measure of core nursing values; (d) it is among the first studies in research on nursing stress, to use the humanizing methodology of moving from data analysis (description of “things”), to describing a typology of nursing stress and career progress (description of individuals).

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Section: The Rosenberg Self-esteem Inventory (Rsei)mentioning

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Personality, Work-Life Balance, Hardiness, and Vocation: A Typology of Nurses and Nursing Values in a Special Sample of English Hospital Nurses

Bagley

Abubaker

Sawyerr

2018

Administrative Sciences

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“…As we are going to see in the results, we can conduct some alternative actions oriented toward specific factors to experience a linkage to ourselves, others and our environment. Despite this holistic view, it is naturally more common to find literature studies that focus on restricted aspects of workplace spirituality such as performance, commitment, well-being, self-esteem, turnover, decision making, and so on [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40].…”

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Workplace Spirituality: Sustainable Work Experience from a Human Factors Perspective

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It is important to note that spiritual matter here is not about a religious, but a human centered view based on self-awareness, life purpose and community engagement. These three aspects of spirituality are the predominant perspective in the literature of organizational changes. These organizational changes are defining new paradigms for work relationships and impacting work environments. Some of these new paradigms are related to work motivation and job satisfaction, which are highly connected to organizational sustainability. Therefore, we choose to investigate workplace spirituality in order to move towards sustainability. In fact, there are already some reviews about workplace spirituality, and the most cited one organizes the topic in three dimensions: first, the inner life dimension that remains in self-centered matters such as identity and values; second, the sense of purpose dimension that refers to work significance perception; and lastly, the sense of community dimension that remains in connection and engagement. Okay, if we already have reviews about that, what is the point? In this review, we choose the predominant perspective on workplace spirituality to turn theoretical discussions into manageable human factors that are expressed by relationship needs at three levels: intrapersonal, interpersonal and institutional. With this new organization of the theme, we expect to support managers to perform actions focused on the type of relationship that is desired to be strengthened. From the review, we identify a total of twelve human factors organized by these three relationship levels, each one with four human factors. The main contribution of this study is a systematic review of workplace spirituality based on a human factor perspective.

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“…5,6 Hospital managers can also create environments conducive for the honouring of the professional dignity of the health team members. 7 When the professional autonomy of health professionals is ensured, their professional dignity is respected. 4 Although midwives have an autonomous practice, they also implement care that is prescribed by obstetricians in an environment that is created by hospital management.…”

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Enhancing the professional dignity of midwives: A phenomenological study

2017

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Exploring nurses' personal dignity, global self-esteem and work satisfaction

Abstract: The relationships measured show that nurses' sense of dignity has commonalities with self-esteem, workplace satisfaction, spiritual commitment, and health status; the meaning of the findings has ramifications for the welfare of nurses internationally.

Cited by 35 publications

References 46 publications

Personality, Work-Life Balance, Hardiness, and Vocation: A Typology of Nurses and Nursing Values in a Special Sample of English Hospital Nurses

Personality, Work-Life Balance, Hardiness, and Vocation: A Typology of Nurses and Nursing Values in a Special Sample of English Hospital Nurses

Workplace Spirituality: Sustainable Work Experience from a Human Factors Perspective

Enhancing the professional dignity of midwives: A phenomenological study

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