Promoting Resilience in Nursing

For some people the strong word resilience can impact one’s life in a significant way. Overall, resiliency is having the ability to still enjoy and continue your life with positive, good times, regardless of a hard past or bad experience. It can be shown in various ways throughout a text, including the setting, the plot, and characterization. This is how the texts, The Other Wes Moore, The Art of Resilience, and The Third and Final Continent share their common theme. This theme the three texts convey is that resiliency is vital for a positive as well as successful life.

There are varieties of definitions in regards with resilience based on different perspectives (Arrington et al., 2000). For instance, from a developmental perspective, resilience can be defined as positive and successful outcomes despite challenging situations (Masten, 2007; Windle, 2010). Resilience can also be defined as recovery to normal functioning from adversity or coping well under currently risk conditions (Masten, 2007; Windle, 2010). However, not every language has the word “resilience”. For example, a phrase, “the ability to cope with adversity” (Ungar et al.,

Resilience, fundamentally, is the ability to bounce back from hardship and the phenomenon of overcoming stress or adversity, for example: personal crises, poverty, mental illness and trauma (Occupational Health & Wellbeing, 2012). This skill can help individuals overcome the most difficult of situations (Occupational Health & Wellbeing, 2012). Resilience theorists generally agree that the presence of protective factors can reduce the effects of exposure to adversity. The more protective factors (or “assets”) available, the more resilient a person will be. Protective factors are conditions or attributes that help people deal more effectively with stressful events and eliminate risk. On the contrary, risk factors are attributes or characteristics

Resilience is defined as, “the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens” (Merriam Webster par 1). Resilience is shown when people use their strength when dealing with adversity. When people are experiencing negative circumstances resilience may lead to positive outcomes (PBS Par 1).

Resilience is something that some people would give anything to have, the price however is sometimes steep. The price of resilience can be personality, a relationship with family, or a person's modesty. By hardening themselves against the outside world some people lose a part of their personality and become much different than they were before, such as Allen Wheelis from “Grass”. Other times people sacrifice a relationship with someone they care about to become resilient, shutting them out so that they can not hurt them anymore, Elizabeth from “Jericho”, a short story by Margaret Price, is an example of this. Lastly some people who are resilient get what is called survivor’s pride, and in turn become arrogant, an example

Staying Positive When I began doing research for this paper, my first thought was, what exactly is resilience? Resilience is adapting to adversity. It is the ability to roll with the punches that come in life. When stress, adversity, or trauma attacks, a person will still experience anger, grief, and pain, but she is able to keep functioning. “The Blessings of Adversity” is an article written by James E. Faust, published in a magazine called the Ensign.

If you want to see examples of resilience, all you have to do is look at recent events. Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma, these three massive storms decimated, Houston the 4th largest city in the U.S, caused widespread damage to the state of Florida, and let’s not forget the massive destruction throughout the Caribbean Islands. The people of these areas could have just left and said enough is enough, and yes some did leave. However, a vast majority of the population of these areas has stayed a vowed to rebuild. This is what I call resilience, to stay where everything you owned is gone, there’s no power, food shortage, gas shortage, little to no water to drink. You have to agree that this is definitely resilience shown by these people, to overcome difficulties, to bounce back and recover, to never give up or give in. When giving up would be the easy way out, these people have shown true resilience staying and fighting for what you believe in. Another example of resilience, I just experienced personally within my own classroom as an automotive instructor was, when one of my student’s mother recently passed away from stage four breast cancer, the student could have just shut down and not been able to continue in class, but this student has shown great strength and character, by continuing to be in class everyday by showing real strength and courage and resilience he has been working through

Given the previous research on CF and resilience within nursing and patient outcomes, a two-part study developed to

Resilience according to the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, is the ability to adapt to a situation that may alter an individual’s lifestyle in a positive way, without being consumed by the negative outcomes (National Scientific Council on Developing Child, 2015).

In the science of resilience, Bari Walsh defines the meaning of resilience by using Jack Shankov’s definition - “a positive, adaptive response in the face of significant adversity”. (gse.harvard). Basically resilience is the capacity to quickly recover from toughness of life.

“Resilience has been defined as an attitude that enables the individual to examine, enhance, and utilized the strengths, characterizes and other resources available to him or her” (Harrington, 2012, p. x). Based on the history of resilience, it has been determined why people may overcome quickly than others. Also, has been describe as bouncing back, which happens according to such struggles, and adaption’s

Resilience is the epitome of overcoming the unexpected and achieving one’s goals no matter what may stand in your way.In the story “Through The Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, the author reveals that when one perseveres, they can meet their goals and overcome adversity. She says “One, Two, Three. He counted steadily. He could hear the movement of blood in his chest. Fifty-one, Fifty-two...His chest was hurting. He let go of the rock and went up into the air...On the day before they left, He would do it. He would do it if it killed him, he said defiantly to himself.” When the boy says he

The resiliency quiz and article suggest that resiliency is innate to most people. No matter the challenges, we all have the capacity for resiliency building. As Social Workers we will encounter individuals who may need assistance in recognizing, building and maintaining resilience. this powerful self-assessment tool does an effective job of highlighting areas of resilience and resiliency builders.

Resilience in an individual refers to successful adaptation, despite the risk and adversity. The manner in which Matson 2004 defines resilience is very clear to me, as I can relate and reflect this to one particular girl that resided in the care centre I worked. Throughout the young girl's childhood, she developed an insecure and ambivalent attachment to both her parents, as a result of their hectic lifestyle of substance misuse. At a young age her father died from the HIV viruses, which lead her mother in becoming depressed and profoundly dependant on drugs. Due to the mother's dependency, she was unable to respond accordingly to the girls needs, given very mixed and inconsistent responses. At the age of 10, due to extreme neglect, the young girl was removed from her mothers care and entered the care setting. Over the years the young girl had experienced several placement breakdowns, and at 13 was admitted to a residential centre. During this time she felt both a

First of all, I would like to define what resilience is. Major scholars believe it is the process to recover from trauma, or the ability to respond to adversity. According to Sergeant and Laws-Chapman (2012), resilience refers to “the ability to adapt to adverse conditions while maintaining a sense of purpose, balance, and positive mental and