Towards resilience and wellbeing in nurses

Brennan, Emma Jane

doi:10.12968/bjon.2017.26.1.43

Cited by 99 publications

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“…This modern view of resilience as a developable, day‐to‐day capacity differs from earlier views of it as recovery from crises. These behaviours are separate from, but antecede, attitudes such as job satisfaction, motivation, and wellbeing (Brennan, ; Youssef & Luthans, ). As a set of capacity enhancing behaviours, it likely precedes engagement, and its dimensions such as vigour, which are measured more as attitudes, or as a ‘state of mind’ (Schaufeli, Bakker, & Salanova, , p. 702).…”

Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations: Its role in fostering employee resilience

2019

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Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits organisations. Despite its benefits, little is known about how to foster it. This paper explores whether paradoxical leadership (PL) can contribute to employee resilience. PL – the ability to balance competing structural and relational demands over time – may be one means of supporting employee resilience, as it corresponds to the tensions and paradoxes that exist in public sector work. This correspondence between PL and tensions in public administration work means that PL may also help employees behave resiliently. Findings from a quantitative survey (n = 233) in a large New Zealand public sector organisation indicate that PL antecedes resilience. The effect of PL facets on employee resilience is partially mediated by perceptions of organisational support.

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Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations: Its role in fostering employee resilience

2019

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“…The results of regression analysis showed that psychological resilience was the main influencing factor of the quality of work life. Mainly manifested in: 1) Psychological resilience emphasized the ability of individuals to effectively cope and actively adapt to adverse conditions [14], high professional expectations and fast-paced work environment would make ICU nurses face the risk of high-intensity fatigue and stress-related diseases [21], low psychological resilience may lead to maladaptation, showing mental illness such as anxiety and depression [22]; it was likely to lead to the occurrence of an error event and a reduction in job evaluation; 2) ICU nurses were repeatedly faced with the end of life, prolonging life through artificial support measures, providing end-of-life care, etc., due to lack of reaction time and experience in dealing with similar incidents, it would cause tension, panic and psychological burden. However, psychological resilience can improve the individual's ability to face and adapt to trauma, tragedy, threats or major stressors [23]; 3) The results of Hudgins et al [24] showed that psychological resilience played a vital role in improving nurses' work satisfaction.…”

Section: The Influence Of Psychological Resilience On the Quality Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Current Status and Influencing Factors of the Quality of Work Life of Nurses in Intensive Care Unit

Hong¹,

Zhou²,

Geng³

et al. 2020

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Objective: To investigate the current status and influencing factors of the quality of work life of nurses in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Methods: A total of 243 ICU nurses from 6 general hospitals in Jingzhou were selected by convenient sampling method. Questionnaires were conducted with the general information questionnaire, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Work-Related Quality of Life Scale-2 (WRQoL-2). Results: The total average score of the quality of work life of ICU nurses was (3.35 ± 0.44), which was at a medium level. Department, professional title, frequency of night shift, experience of workplace violence and psychological resilience were the influencing factors of the quality of work life of nurses in ICU, accounting for 39.4% of the variance. Conclusion: The quality of work life of ICU nurses needs to be improved. Nursing managers should pay attention to the work environment of ICU nurses, rationally allocate manpower, and improve the status of psychological resilience of nurses, so as to improve their quality of work life.

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“…We generally see resilience as a characteristic of the individual or group that is associated with better coping skills that mitigate the impact of stressors and has particular salience with nurses whose profession is both challenging and emotionally demanding (McGee, ). It is presumed that nurses' resilience and coping skills can sustain them through difficult work settings (Brennan, ) and this may explain our findings that despite routine exposure to crime and violence, the nurses remain in the healthcare system.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 85%

Levels of resilience and delivery of HIV care in response to urban violence and crime

Cooper

Green

Tembo

et al. 2019

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aims To understand the impact of urban violence and crime on HIV care delivery. Background Urban violence and crime can put pressure on the healthcare system and on nursing staff. Whilst there is research about the impact this has at the individual level, there is less research that places this in the context of the overall social eco‐system. Design A qualitative design using inductive thematic analysis. Methods Between July 2016 ‐ February 2017, we conducted in‐depth interviews with 10 nurses working in two neighbourhoods with high levels of violence in Cape Town, South Africa. Results The effects of crime and violence were evident at multiple levels resulting in participants feeling “safe and unsafe” in a context where people view crime as endemic. Resilience emerged as a key concept in the findings. Resilience was apparent at individual, community, and organizational levels and enabled continued delivery of HIV care. Conclusion The findings demonstrate the potential role of resilience in the social eco‐health system required to sustain delivery of HIV care in the midst of urban violence and gangsterism. Impact This study examined the impact of and response to urban violence on HIV care delivery. The findings indicate that resilience manifests at all levels of the social eco‐system. Understanding the mechanisms employed to cope with endemic violence helps to address these challenges in the study setting, but also has a much wider application to other areas with endemic urban violence and crime.

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Towards resilience and wellbeing in nurses

Cited by 99 publications

References 33 publications

Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations: Its role in fostering employee resilience

Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations: Its role in fostering employee resilience

Current Status and Influencing Factors of the Quality of Work Life of Nurses in Intensive Care Unit

Levels of resilience and delivery of HIV care in response to urban violence and crime

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