Badu, E., O’Brien, A. P., Mitchell, R., Rubin, M., James, C., McNeil, K., … Giles, M. (2020). Workplace stress and resilience in the Australian nursing workforce: A comprehensive integrative review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 29(1), 5–34. doi:10.1111/inm.12662
In a single synthesis, the review included qualitative and quantitative data. According to the findings, nurses are stressed at moderate to high levels. Nurses use a variety of personal characteristics and organizational tools to deal with job hardship. Individual characteristics include self-reliance, passion and enthusiasm, emotional intelligence, and positive thinking as self-efficacy mechanisms, as well as work-life balance and structuring work as mindful strategies. Furthermore, the analysis indicates that numerous strategies to promote resilience in healthcare institutions in Australia have recently been piloted. Mindful resilience and self-care, work-based educational treatments, an adult resilience program, and mindfulness-based tension reductions are among the approaches.
Support services, leadership, and role modeling are three organizational tools that are utilized to create resilience. Individual characteristics and organizational resources are generally addressed in empirical studies on resilience, with few studies concentrating on workplace solutions. According to the research, Australian nurses are under moderate to high stress, which is mostly due to workplace bullying. Additionally, these nurses suffer from moderate to severe melancholy, anxiety, and burnout. This study suggests that a variety of human characteristics and organizational resources are used as forms of resistance to overcome workplace adversity. This article develops the issues related to stress that nurses are exposed to and how they cope with it. This is valuable information for the topic of tension at work affecting the nurses’ mental health.
Foster, K., Cuzzillo, C., & Furness, T. (2018). Strengthening mental health nurses’ resilience through a workplace resilience programme: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 25(5-6), 338-348.
The study’s goal was to find out what mental health nurses thought about a resilience program started by a mental health service. An exploratory qualitative investigation was conducted in order to accomplish so. Multiple qualitative data sources were analyzed thematically, including open-ended replies, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. Twenty-nine nurse practitioners from a metropolitan psychiatric hospital took part in the study. Being confronted with adversity, reinforcing understandings of resilience, increasing resilience, and utilizing resilience skills at work were the four primary topics. This is the first research to present the viewpoints of mental health nurses on a resilience program. Nurses’ self-efficacy and capacity to appropriately assess stressful events and manage their emotional responses to others might benefit from resilience programs. The study addresses the psychological characteristics that allow nurses to resist the impact of work on their mental health, thus making it relevant to the topic. Understanding how resilience works provide information on how the effects of tension in the workplace occur in different individuals based on their ability to resist stress.
Foster, K., Roche, M., Delgado, C., Cuzzillo, C., Giandinoto, J. A., & Furness, T. (2019). Resilience and mental health nursing: An integrative review of international literature. International journal of mental health nursing, 28(1), 71-85.
The goal of this article was to look at different viewpoints on resilience, as well as analyze and synthesize the current state of knowledge in psychiatric nursing. Twelve papers were chosen after a thorough search, screening, and data retrieval procedure. Theoretical ideas of resilience and understanding of mental health nurses’ resilience emerged through constant comparative study and integration of the data. Resilience has been defined in mental health nursing as an individual skill, a social capability, or an interacting person-environment process. Low-moderate resilience was most frequently reported, with positive associations with toughness, self-esteem, life and career satisfaction, and negative associations with depression and burnout. The study is relevant to the topic as it directly addresses the issues related to the mental health of the nurses and provides a review of different literature and various viewpoints, which allows to better understand the subject. The article provides information regarding the negative consequences for nurses’ mental health caused by stress at workplaces, the skills to be developed to withstand that tension, and the causes of these issues.
References
Badu, E., O’Brien, A. P., Mitchell, R., Rubin, M., James, C., McNeil, K., … Giles, M. (2020). Workplace stress and resilience in the Australian nursing workforce: A comprehensive integrative review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 29(1), 5–34. doi:10.1111/inm.12662
Foster, K., Cuzzillo, C., & Furness, T. (2018). Strengthening mental health nurses’ resilience through a workplace resilience programme: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 25(5-6), 338-348.
Foster, K., Roche, M., Delgado, C., Cuzzillo, C., Giandinoto, J. A., & Furness, T. (2019). Resilience and mental health nursing: An integrative review of international literature. International journal of mental health nursing, 28(1), 71-85.