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Jul 8, 2020 · Understanding personality types can assist nurses in enhancing their understanding of themselves and their colleagues, which in turn can support effective communication. This article outlines the principles of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - a personality inventory that aims to improve the ….
- Louise Terry
- 2020
Understanding personality types can assist nurses in enhancing their understanding of themselves and their colleagues, which in turn can support effective communication.
Jul 2, 2024 · Poor patient outcomes can result in complaints, worsening physical and mental well-being, and also increase the chance of patient readmissions. While understanding personality types won’t completely fix all the nursing-related issues in the healthcare industry, it’s a good start.
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- Effective Coping Strategies to Avoid Nursing Burnout
- Self-Awareness Is Just The Beginning
Many different models have been proposed to better understand personality, but the model that is most widely accepted by psychologists today is the Big Five Model. According to this theory, personality can be narrowed down to five main factors: extroversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. Each of these factors represen...
Our personalities affect all areas of our lives because of course they are part of us. Furthermore, our personality traits are largely out of our control since about 50% of our personality traitsare inherited. Although we are not able to fully control our personalities or those of others for that matter, it is important to know ourselves and be abl...
Healthcare professionals, in particular nurses, are regularly exposed to stressful situations, which often lead to nursing burnout, depression, and negative moods. Interestingly, studies have shown that nurses' abilities to copeeffectively with these stressful situations is largely dependent on their personality traits. In 2019, Pérez-Fuentes and o...
Interestingly, stressful situations in our lives aren’t in themselves harmful. The negative consequences that these stressors might cause depend on the behavior or techniques people use to face these situations. In other words, the way people cope with stress is more significant to their well-being than the stressors themselves. Overall, Dijkstra a...
Knowing our own personalities and identifying our go-to coping mechanisms is only the beginning of this journey of personal improvement and self-care. Once we understand ourselves — what situations we thrive in and how we tend to react to stressors in our lives — it is up to us to make the necessary changes in our own behavior as well as carefully ...
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The article explores how these 16 personality types can influence communication within healthcare teams and between healthcare professionals. It also discusses how these personality types affect styles of nurse leadership and how an understanding of personality types can improve nurses’ communication with patients.
Dec 1, 2020 · Given the importance of mental health among health care providers, there is still a need to better understand the personality traits that flag potential susceptibilities and/or risk of maladaptive responses in nurses and paramedics.
Nov 28, 2014 · Personality is deemed to play a part in an individual’s choice of work, with individuals’ preferencing a profession or field of work that will satisfy their personal needs. There is limited research exploring the personality characteristics of nurses within clearly defined nursing specialty areas.
