The Research Forum
on Resilience in Nursing

Three successive resilience strategies, starting with hunches that elicit scepticism, through cognitions of anticipation the worst-case scenario that could happen to the patient, and concluding with proactive behaviours characterize resilient nurses, helping them to prevent patients' falls

Nursing students' resilience should be seen as a flexible resource thatcan be developed and influenced by their academic and clinical training, and by the in-tentions and actions of their university and the nursing administration at the Ministry of Health (MOH).

The study highlights the importance of nurse proactivity in educating patients about fall prevention, especially when adherence to procedures in the ward is perceived as low.

Parental psychosocial factors, additionally to illness and sociodemographic indicators, can potentially risk parents to experience Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS)/ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Nursing and other healthcare professionals can participate in early screening of such factors to determine familial risk.

Job resources are moderators of the relationship between job demands and occupational strain. However, there was no significant association between occupational strain and job satisfaction.

Resilience was associated with lower distress and higher feelings of affirmation/ belonging (self-identity); however, longitudinal findings showed that resilience was predicted by the ability to adapt to changes under stress. Resilient 18 year olds demonstrated the ability to adapt to stressful situations, but psychological distress may impede the development of self-identity.

In their dual role as nurses and mentors, nurse mentors often face a Catch-22 situation, namely, meeting expectations of both students and patients. Thus, they increase their job resources and challenging demands; however, not all strategies improve the quality of care.