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      The relationship between resilience and empowering leader behaviour of nurse managers in the mining healthcare sector

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          Abstract

          Background

          The South African mining healthcare sector faces injuries, illnesses including HIV and AIDS and high staff turnover rates. In this sector, nurse managers should create an optimal environment for providing nursing care by motivating, influencing and empowering nurses.

          Objectives

          This study aimed to investigate the relationship between nurse managers’ resilience and empowering leader behaviour in this sector.

          Method

          The study employed a quantitative, descriptive and correlational design. The research population comprised 31 nurse managers, 101 professional nurses, 79 enrolled nurses and 79 enrolled nursing auxiliaries who participated in the study. Two questionnaires were used as data collection methods, namely Wagnild and Young’s Resilience Scale Questionnaire to investigate the resilience of nurse managers and the Empowering Leadership Questionnaire to measure empowering leader behaviour of the nurses supervised by a particular nurse manager.

          Results

          Out of 31 nurse managers, 8 had a low level, 19 had a moderate level and 4 had a high level of resilience. According to Hoteling’s t-test the nurse managers in the low resilience group displayed lower empowering leader behaviour as perceived by their team members than those in the high resilience group in terms of the five factors included in the Empowerment Leadership Questionnaire.

          Conclusion

          Respondents with high resilience scores tended to have higher leader empowering behaviour.

          Recommendations include the strengthening of nurse managers’ resilience through workshops and reflection practices, debriefing and performance feedback sessions.

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          The empowering leadership questionnaire: the construction and validation of a new scale for measuring leader behaviors

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            Personal resilience as a strategy for surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: a literature review.

            This paper is a report of a literature review to explore the concept of personal resilience as a strategy for responding to workplace adversity and to identify strategies to enhance personal resilience in nurses. Workplace adversity in nursing is associated with excessive workloads, lack of autonomy, bullying and violence and organizational issues such as restructuring, and has been associated with problems retaining nurses in the workforce. However, despite these difficulties many nurses choose to remain in nursing, and survive and even thrive despite a climate of workplace adversity. The literature CINAHL, EBSCO, Medline and Pubmed databases were searched from 1996 to 2006 using the keywords 'resilience', 'resilience in nursing', and 'workplace adversity' together with 'nursing'. Papers in English were included. Resilience is the ability of an individual to positively adjust to adversity, and can be applied to building personal strengths in nurses through strategies such as: building positive and nurturing professional relationships; maintaining positivity; developing emotional insight; achieving life balance and spirituality; and, becoming more reflective. Our findings suggest that nurses can actively participate in the development and strengthening of their own personal resilience to reduce their vulnerability to workplace adversity and thus improve the overall healthcare setting. We recommend that resilience-building be incorporated into nursing education and that professional support should be encouraged through mentorship programmes outside nurses' immediate working environments.
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              A Review of the Resilience Scale

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                Curationis
                Curationis
                CUR
                Curationis
                AOSIS
                0379-8577
                2223-6279
                28 June 2018
                2018
                : 41
                : 1
                : 1775
                Affiliations
                [1 ]School of Nursing Science, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
                [2 ]School of Nursing Science, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa
                [3 ]Unit for Business, Mathematics and Informatics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Babalwa Tau, 12023361@ 123456nwu.ac.za
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0196-6611
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6469-2021
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0763-2444
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7163-3265
                Article
                CUR-41-1775
                10.4102/curationis.v41i1.1775
                6111486
                30035601
                76723fa1-2c64-4116-a668-9eaf6fe2e90c
                © 2018. The Authors

                Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

                History
                : 05 December 2017
                : 14 May 2018
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