Building Personal Resilience

Building physician resilience.

OBJECTIVE To explore the dimensions of family physician resilience. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews with family physician peers. SETTING Hamilton, Ont. PARTICIPANTS Purposive sample of 17 family physicians. METHOD An iterative process of face-to-face, in-depth interviews that were audiotaped and transcribed. The research team independently reviewed each interview for ...

Building personal and professional resources of resilience and agility in the healthcare workplace.

This article describes the rationale, implementation and results of a pilot study evaluating the personal and organizational impact of an educational intervention on the stress of health team members. The compelling imperative for the project was to find a positive and effective way to address the documented stress levels of healthcare workers. Pilot study of oncology staff (n=29) and healthcar...

Building Long-term Reef Resilience

Psychometric Characteristics of Multidimensional Measure of Nurses’ Personal Resilience

Background and Aims: Nurses face too much stressors as work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, lack of vacation time and painful experiences of patients; therefore, resiliency can help them to appropriate and efficient cope with these stressors. But, there is no brief and practical scale to assess psychological resiliency among nurses in Iran. So, the aim of the present study was to ...

Building a Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for Power Systems Resilience Metrics

Recently, the frequency and severity of natural and man-made disasters (extreme events), which have a high-impact low-frequency (HILF) property, are increased. These disasters can lead to extensive outages, damages, and costs in electric power systems. A power system must be built with “resilience” against disasters, which means its ability to withstand disasters efficiently while ensuring the ...