RESILIENCE AMONG NURSE MANAGERS: A NARRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW ON INFLUENCING FACTORS AND STRATEGIES FOR STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE AMONG NURSE MANAGERS: A NARRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW ON INFLUENCING FACTORS AND STRATEGIES FOR STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE

Author(s): Michal Noach
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: personal resilience; nurse managers; resilience-enhancing strategies; crises; emergency situations
Summary/Abstract: Healthcare systems worldwide experience challenges and crises that include pandemics, emergency events, wars, and so on. During these events, nurse managers are required to provide a professional response. handle many burdens, resolve continuous pressures, make determined decisions, and cope with uncertainty and rapidly changing situations. This might undermine the nurses’ personal resilience. Nevertheless, the empirical literature about nurse managers’ resilience is limited, and studies focus more on nursing staffs and less on their managers. When the world continues coping with wars and emergency situations, it is highly important to explore how nurse managers address the meaningful challenges that are likely to affect their personal resilience.This narrative review aims to investigate available literature dealing with resilience in the healthcare system, identifying the state of knowledge about personal resilience, as well as strategies for enhancing personal resilience in order to handle crises at work. The literature review illustrates that exposure to emergency situations, workloads, and insufficient resources, constitute factors that affect nurse managers’ resilience. The strategies identified as promoters of nurse managers’ resilience are: creating a balance between work and life, establishing positive relationships and communication with colleagues, training designed to improve resilience, offering social support, and thinking positively in times of crisis.

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