Title : The impact of a first-year graduate nursing resilience educational program on nursing students resilience
Abstract:
Nursing is a demanding profession and one that comes with chronic levels of high stress. This increased stress originates in nursing school when students balance the demands of family, work, and school responsibilities. Admission to nursing school can be highly competitive, and once accepted, the curriculum has heavy course loads, stringent examinations, and pressure to attain and maintain a high-grade point average. All this occurs within the context of saving people’s lives and improving the overall wellbeing of patients. This high stress level impacts individual learning and raises attrition. There is support in the literature for interventions addressing these stressors by increasing nursing students’ coping abilities. Recommendations have been made to further research interventions that assist students in managing anxiety and stress. (Turner et al, 2017). An evidence-based project (EBP) seeking to foster resilience in graduate nursing students was conducted at the Uniformed Services University, Graduate School of Nursing.
PICOT Question: in graduate nursing students (P), does participating in an evidence-based resilience training (I) compared to pre-course participation (C) improve learner confidence in applying resilience skills after each training and students’ overall level of resilience over 6 months?
This project was a single group pre-post evaluation of learner confidence in resilience skills (the ability to implement evidence-based resilience techniques) and resilience levels after receiving an evidence-based resilience training course. The resilience training course constitutes a bundle of evidence-based resilience- building tools that were delivered in 3 sessions over a period of 6 consecutive months. The training was compiled by the team lead (TL) and project consultants. Given the small size and military-specific sample limits the generalizability of the results. Still, findings from the current study provide important insights on how this EBP resilience intervention translated to the current study population and these findings will be used to further guide the team in its future implementations with the upcoming cohorts of DNP students to help foster resilience in the DNP pipeline that is very much a national and world wide need.
Audience Take Away:
- Attendees will explain the rational for including resilience in nursing curriculums.
- Attendees will describe resilience building education that can be incorporated into most nursing programs.
- Attendees will understand how to measure and track resilience indicators in their nursing student population.
