The Quality Of Resilience In Nursing

This essay will discuss the quality of resilience, it critical elements, and its effects; assessing its effectiveness in promoting reasonable and sincere responses to psychological and physical trauma. The first section of this essay will inspect and define the concept of resilience, showing its place in the realm of general health care while maintaining its individuality as a characteristic of personal psychological well being. The following section will dictate the risk and protective factors both innate and imposed that encourage or prevent a resilient character arising as a result of physical or psychological trauma. The final section of this essay will explain the components of resilience that influence health care workers and patients,

Through the appropriate educating of healthcare professionals in preventative and coping measures towards stress, communication is improved as well as worker self-awareness, allowing for increased patient care and safety (Pipe et al., 2011). This is often achieved through workplace seminars and/or general employee availability to workplace counsellors, promoting risk awareness and planning and preparation (Castleden, McKee, Murray, & Leonardi, 2011), allowing for the self-management of psychological health in events of shock and trauma. Training in resilience also promotes problem solving and persistence through encouraged self-reflection (Chen & 陳季員, 2011), characteristics crucial in the support of patient health. By self-reflecting, healthcare can recognise and solve psychological factors that may be inhibiting their work and/or their balance of their life outside of work. One example could be a nurse that has recently had a family member diagnosed with cancer, and as a result they had been neglecting regular clinical observations with one of their chemotherapy patients. Through the utilisation of resilient problem solving, the nurse is able to ask to swap patients with a co-worker, until they feel capable to professionally interact with the patient. Resilient responses, however , are not entirely fixed in consistency; they are often dictated by environment and resources (e.g. family members available, general physical health) and as a result of this subjective processing, responses will vary between patients (Southwick, 2011). This individual maintenance of resilience as a personal quality further justifies healthcare workers trained in effective coping mechanisms in order to provide an unbiased environment for unrestricted, unique, positive psychological responses. Overall, the