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Leaving these chronic nursing workforce issues unaddressed has critical impacts beyond the nursing workforce. Patient safety, quality care, and health system sustainability are also at risk. There is extensive evidence linking the inadequacy of nurse staffing to missed care and patient morbidity and mortality.
May 11, 2021 · Nurses are committed to meeting the diverse and often complex needs of people with competence and compassion. While nursing is viewed as a “calling” by many nurses, it is a demanding profession. During the course of their work, nurses encounter physical, mental, emotional, and ethical challenges. Depending on the role and setting of the nurse’s work, these may include incurring the risk ...
- Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Suzanne Le Menestrel, David R. Williams, Mary K. Wakefield
- 2021/05/11
- 2021
May 11, 2021 · Mentoring is associated with positive benefits, including professional development, greater skills, a better fit with one’s choice of specialty, and greater life–work balance (Disch, 2018). In mentoring new nurses in the application of concepts related to health equity or in needed specialty areas as identified above, nurses with experience can encourage collaboration among nurses of ...
- Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Suzanne Le Menestrel, David R. Williams, Mary K. Wakefield
- 2021/05/11
- 2021
Nurse’s positive attitudes (NPA) are the values, verified beliefs and judgments of. The Code: Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses and. NPA from the council, health care ...
- Overcoming Negative Tendencies
- Positivity in Action
- Three Good Things
- Increasing Social Connections
- Encouraging Random Acts of Kindness
- Other Interventions
- Just Do It!
As humans, we’re wired to focus on the negative. Our basic negative emotions evolved from our ancestors’ fight-or-flight instinct—the physiologic response to a perceived threat to survival. While fight-or-flight is important in emergencies, too much exposure to long-term negative emotions can heighten our cardiovascular response and cause additiona...
Applying the “broaden and build” theory to teams can result in positive emotions that lead to a positive emotional climate, which stimulates organizational growth and performance. Positive emotions also can improve relationships among coworkers and cooperation within teams. Using positive psychology in healthcare settings is a relatively new conce...
Writing down three good things each day for 2 weeks helps those good things become more visible, even during the most challenging situations. Researchers found that doing this every day for 2 weeks increased happiness for up to 6 months. To adapt this practice to a clinical environment and a focus on teamwork, we developed a “three good things” she...
Social connections have been correlated with happiness and are considered necessary for people to flourish. It’s important not only to increase the number of social connections, but also to make each connection a high-quality one. (See Not just happiness and smiles.) To improve the quality of our connections with patients, we place “Getting to know...
Acts of kindness and altruism have been shown to improve mental health and reduce stress levels. We challenged staff to perform random acts of kindness over a 2-month period and report any acts performed, received, or witnessed. This practice spread throughout the hospital, with patients performing acts of kindness for other patients and ancillary ...
We’ve also worked on increasing gratitude through a staff peer recognition board, increasing our awareness of the positivity in our lives through a “loving kindness meditation” at a staff meeting, and using the Signature Strengths survey (available at www.viame.org) to discover each other’s strengths. Engaging in enjoyable activities, such as getti...
Any positive emotion can start the upward spiral, so the most important thing you can do to increase positivity in your team is to get started. Pick the intervention that most appeals to you, adapt it to your environment, and commit to implementing it within the next week. Keep at it—and watch the upward spiral of positive emotions grow. Selected r...
IT’S LEADERSHIP. Nurses may encounter many challenges and stressors in the workplace—long hours, rotating shifts, inadequate staffing, poor teamwork, and pressure to achieve higher per-formance levels in an emotionally and physically de-manding field. The American Nurses As-sociation found that the effects of stress and over-.
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Feb 23, 2022 · DiNapoli et al. (2016) found that there were positive relationships between structural empowerment and psychological empowerment and staff engagement. Structural and psychological empowerment influences each other to decrease burnout syndrome and improves the work life quality among nurses (Nursalam et al., 2018).
