Resilience Training

Hi everyone,

I am currently undertaking a MSc in occupational psychology and I am looking at wellbeing in the workplace. I wondered if any of you have ever been offered resilience training at your workplace, or if you have found training for yourself.

Developing emotional resilience for practise is a key skill which enhances wellbeing, job satisfaction and retention in healthcare professions.

I am based in the UK, but I am interested in whether this type of training has been offered in the UK, USA, or anywhere else in the world. I am aware of a couple of facilities in Australia offering it.

Also looking to see if there is actually any interest in this type of program/workshops being offered.

Love to read peoples thoughts on this.

I have not encountered specifically resilience training for nurses.

I wonder what your thoughts are on this - why do you think nurses would benefit from this kind of training? What would that include?

Nursing is usually such a busy job with all the competencies and learning that has to be completed - I can imagine that "resilience" is low on the totem pole.

Because world wide, nurses are placed under high levels of stress. I am an agency nurse and I no matter which organisation I work in each week, I hear the same complaints....Nurses feel undervalued and overstressed, "burnt out", fatigued...fed up with the organisational changes forced upon them, poor leadership etc. Enhancing personal and workplace resilience can help address this. Research by Kinman and Grant (2011); Adamson et al, (2012) & Stephenson (2013) has made some headway into helping to develop resilience in the helping professions.

Because world wide, nurses are placed under high levels of stress. I am an agency nurse and I no matter which organisation I work in each week, I hear the same complaints....Nurses feel undervalued and overstressed, "burnt out", fatigued...fed up with the organisational changes forced upon them, poor leadership etc. Enhancing personal and workplace resilience can help address this. Research by Kinman and Grant (2011); Adamson et al, (2012) & Stephenson (2013) has made some headway into helping to develop resilience in the helping professions.

Thanks for your reply !

To be honest - I think while it is great to support nurses deal with the high stress jobs it is more important to address organizational problems.

If the majority of a professions gets to a point where after they become nurses they just "want go get away from the bedside" I think we need to look more into that. Nursing in the US is different from nursing in Europe in many ways but fact is that nurses are overwhelmed all around. There is only so much a nurse can do with resilience when management expects them to be "customer service representatives" and document constantly, nursing assistants MIA and so on...

Good luck with your project.

There are articles by Canadian mental health professionals that show healthcare professionals and emergency responders are at occupational risk of developing compassion fatigue, burnout or vicarious trauma. There are training workshops, online courses and workbooks available in my area, I have not taken a course or workshop but understand the basics of resilience training and incorporate some of the skills in my work and personal life.

@Perurn, Do you consider employee wellness programs a part of resiliency training? If so, then wellness programs are available in quite a few Canadian workplaces (both in and out of healthcare) they include; mindfullness, yoga, massage, etc

The US Army is huge on it to the point where we have to do 3 hours of training every monthly drill. Unfortunately since it has been beat into our skulls so much, it has kind of lost its value on the soldiers. However, the Army does have a substantial program with lots of material and even a course for civilians and soldiers to take and become trainers.

An example: Master Resilience School | Fort Jackson

Just google MRT and army.