Implementing a Resilience-Promoting Education Program for New Nursing Graduates

Abstract

Retaining qualified nurses at the bedside can have a positive impact on patient care safety and quality. Without support and resilience, nurses may become emotionally exhausted within the first year of practice. Nursing professional development educators must recognize that new nurses often struggle with stressors related to nursing and take the appropriate steps to help them build resilience. This article describes an education project implemented to assist new nurses in developing their resilience. It describes the process and outcomes of a resiliency training program infused into one healthcare facility's nurse residency program and may inform nursing professional development educators planning similar programs.

Prelicensure Nursing Students’ Reflections on Institutional Response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis

“…As noted in this study and previous studies ( DuBois & Zedreck Gonzalez, 2018 ; Wallace et al, 2021 ), nursing students and practicing nurses are resilient. The concept of resilience is another area emerging in the literature, especially in nursing practice, due to the nursing shortage and pandemics.…”

“… Henshall et al (2020) state resilience is the positive adaptation or the ability to maintain mental health despite experiencing adversity. In the future, educating nurses on how to be resilient will add to retention amid a nursing shortage ( DuBois & Zedreck Gonzalez, 2018 ). Most students in this study displayed a degree of resiliency in their comments, “I think it is also a silver lining because you learned how to be flexible,” and gave an empathetic response regarding their institutions handling the COVID-19 pandemics—“they tried hard.”…”

Experiences from COVID-19 and Emergency Remote Teaching for Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering Programmes

“…Furthermore, findings have demonstrated the positive correlation between determination and a range of academic performance indicators, underpinning the role that self-efficacy has in achieving such outcomes [56]. Linked to our own research, this supports the case for formal resilience training, as has been successfully used in other professional discipline education programmes [57] to become a feature of skills development in engineering courses. Such activity would be well-suited to entrepreneurship education given the significance it plays in company start-up success [58] and emerging business resilience frameworks for start-ups [59].…”

The impact of transition programmes on workplace bullying, violence, stress and resilience for students and new graduate nurses: A scoping review

“…There were improvements in NGNs' knowledge about harassment and violence and strategies to deal with these situations after the implementation of educational sessions during the TPs (El‐Ganzory et al, 2014; Maresca et al, 2015). DuBois and Zedreck Gonzalez (2018) found that 90% of the NGNs ( n = 61) reported that resilience sessions within the TPs were helpful, and their stress scores decreased. Before starting their professional role, if TPs provide NGNs with resilience strategies and teach them how to deal with the workplace violence, bullying and stress that they might be exposed to in their work environment, it could be possible to determine the exact effect of these key strategies.…”