What is it about?
Contemporary workforce pressures effect nursing. Resilience is a form of resistance to the new managerialism inherent in contemporary healthcare.
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Why is it important?
Staying in nursing in notoriously difficult. Today's clinical environment is chaotic leaving many nurses feeling overwhelmed and under duress. Resilience is the capacity to remain functional in the company of noteworthy strife. Nurses require resilience to cope with, and even develop from, the context of their everyday work.
Perspectives
Shared stories of resistance and resilience have the capacity to sustain in difficult and challenging times. Resilience allows for the capacity to be resistant in the new reality of nursing work.
Associate Professor Vicki Cope
Murdoch University
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This page is a summary of: Resilience as resistance to the new managerialism: portraits that reframe nursing through quotes from the field, Journal of Nursing Management, February 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12279.
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