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Resilience and organisational empowerment among long‐term care nurses: effects on patient care and absenteeism
Author(s) -
Williams Jaime,
Hadjistavropoulos Thomas,
Ghandehari Omeed O.,
Malloy David C.,
Hunter Paulette V.,
Martin Ronald R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/jonm.12311
Subject(s) - absenteeism , nursing , empowerment , psychological resilience , psychological intervention , nursing management , psychology , medicine , social psychology , political science , law
Aim To study resilience among long‐term care ( LTC ) nurses and its relationship to organisational empowerment, self‐reported quality of care, perceptions of resident personhood (i.e. viewing another person as a person, implying respect) and absenteeism. Background Although resilience has been examined among nurses, it has not been studied in LTC nurses where resident rates of dementia are high, and nurses may experience stress affecting care and the way residents are perceived. Method A sample of one hundred and thirty LTC nurses from across North America completed a series of questionnaires. Results Resilient nurses were more likely to report higher quality of care and to view residents as having higher personhood status (despite deteriorating cognitive function). Resilience was not predictive of absenteeism. Organisational empowerment did not add to the predictive power of resilience. Conclusions Resilience is of importance in LTC nursing research and future studies could examine this construct in relation to objectively measured resident outcomes. Implications for nursing management Our findings suggest that interventions to improve LTC staff resilience would be important to pursue and that consideration should be given to resilience in optimizing the match between potential staff members and LTC positions.