Resilience and mental health nursing: An integrative review of international literature

Abstract

Mental health nurses work in challenging and potentially high stress settings. Stressors can occur in the context of consumer, family, and/or staff relationships, as well as the work environment and organization. The cumulative effects of stress and professional challenges can lead to harmful impacts for mental health nurses including burnout and poorer physical and mental health. Resilience involves a process of positive adaptation to stress and adversity. The aims of this integrative review were to examine understandings and perspectives on resilience, and explore and synthesize the state of knowledge on resilience in mental health nursing. Following systematic search processes, screening, and data extraction, 12 articles were included. Constant comparative analysis and synthesis of the data resulted in two key categories: Theoretical concepts of resilience and Knowledge on mental health nurses’ resilience. In mental health nursing, resilience has been variously constructed as an individual ability, collective capacity, or as an interactive person–environment process. Resilience was most often reported as low‐moderate, with positive correlations with hardiness, self‐esteem, life and job satisfaction, and negative correlations with depression and burnout. A resilience programme improved mental health nurses’ coping self‐efficacy and capacity to regulate thoughts and emotions and developed their resilient practice. Use of contemporary resilience definitions will inform more consistent investigation and progressively scaffold knowledge of this emergent construct in mental health nursing. Future research on the implementation of resilience programmes and resilience‐building strategies for mental health nurses at the individual, work unit, and organizational levels is needed.

The Effect of Practice toward Do-Not-Resuscitate among Taiwanese Nursing Staff Using Path Modeling

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Nursing resilience interventions–A way forward in challenging healthcare territories

“…In response to the increasing pressures facing nurses working within overstretched and under-resourced healthcare systems, building personal resilience has been identified as being essential in coping with work related stress and adversity, maintaining job satisfaction, engaging in self-care and helping to address problems with workforce retention and staff well-being (Foster et al, 2019;Slatyer, Craigie, Heritage, Davis, & Rees, 2017). Internationally, multiple resilience enhancement interventions have been developed and implemented in various settings (Craigie et al, 2016;Henshall et al, 2020;McDonald et al, 2012).…”

The effect of practice toward do-not-resuscitate among Taiwanese nursing staff using path modeling

“…Dispositional resilience had a positive correlation with hardiness, self-esteem, life, and job satisfaction. It was also a protective factor against perceived stress and a facilitating factor for happiness in nurses [24,35]. The higher the dispositional resilience level, the lower the burnout situations in nurses who can successfully overcome obstacles, uncertainties, and negative conditions [36].…”