Perceived Occupational Stressors and the General Health of Critical Care Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic

Effectiveness of a Theory-Based Resiliency Intervention for Nurses

BACKGROUND

The stress level among nurses is significantly high, which negatively affects the nurses' well-being and the quality of care provided to patients. The goal of this study was to measure the impact of implementing a resiliency training program on nurses.

METHOD

A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was used to measure the impact of nurses' participation in a resiliency training program. The sample was recruited with the convenience sampling technique. Participants were allocated to groups according to their ability to attend all intervention sessions. A total of 137 participants completed all phases of the study. The study was conducted at a private hospital in Amman, Jordan. Data were collected at two time points, before the intervention and 1 week after the intervention.

RESULTS

Analysis of covariance was used to measure differences between groups after the intervention. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences (p < .001) in resilience and stress levels between the groups after the intervention.

CONCLUSION

Nurses in the intervention group showed a significant improvement in resilience scores and a significant reduction in stress scores. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2023;54(12):581-588.].

Authentic Leadership and Its Role in Registered Nurses' Mental Health and Experiences of Workplace Bullying

Introduction

Bullying is a widespread problem in healthcare organizations, resulting in nurses' poor mental health. Effective leadership, such as authentic leadership, may help to overcome this problem.

Objective

To examine the relationship between authentic leadership, workplace bullying, and nurses' mental health, controlling for demographic characteristics.

Methods

A descriptive correlational design was utilized with a sample of 170 nurses. Nurses were recruited from four private hospitals in Jordan and completed a survey about their perception of managers' authentic leadership, their experience of workplace bullying, and their mental health.

Results

About 48.8%, 25.9%, and 25.3% were categorized as "not bullied," "occasionally bullied," and "severely bullied," respectively. Participant nurses had mild depression (m = 12.11) and moderate anxiety (m = 10.92). Workplace bullying was higher among nurses who earn less than 600 Jordanian dinars and nurses working in the smallest hospital, with 130 beds. Authentic leadership explains 6% of the variance of workplace bullying, 3% of anxiety, 7% of stress, and 7% of depression above and beyond the variance explained by other variables.

Conclusions

Healthcare organizations are facing a challenge in providing a healthy work environment. Employing authentic leadership in the workplace could be one of the factors that could help in addressing this issue.