Lynette Cusack, Morgan Smith, Desley Hegney, Clare S Rees, Lauren J Breen, Regina R Witt, Cath Rogers, Allison Williams, Wendy Cross, Kin Cheung
Building nurses' resilience to complex and stressful practice environments is necessary to keep skilled nurses in the workplace and ensuring safe patient care. A unified theoretical framework titled Health Services Workplace Environmental Resilience Model (HSWERM), is presented to explain the environmental factors in the workplace that promote nurses' resilience. The framework builds on a previously-published theoretical model of individual resilience, which identified the key constructs of psychological resilience as self-efficacy, coping and mindfulness, but did not examine environmental factors in the workplace that promote nurses' resilience...
2016: Frontiers in Psychology