• BMJ Support Palliat Care · Mar 2020

    Resilience in inpatient palliative care nursing: a qualitative systematic review.

    • Martin J Powell, Katherine Froggatt, and Sabir Giga.
    • Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK martinpowell2014@gmail.com.
    • BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2020 Mar 1; 10 (1): 79-90.

    BackgroundNurses in inpatient palliative care are frequently exposed to death and dying in addition to common stressors found in other nursing practice. Resilience may mitigate against stress but remains ill-defined and under-researched in the specialist palliative care setting.ObjectiveThe aim of this systematic review was to understand resilience from the perspectives of inpatient palliative care nurses.DesignA thematic synthesis of qualitative studies was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.Data SourcesAcademic Search Ultimate, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Medline Complete, PsycINFO and Scopus.Review MethodsThe review stages were searching for relevant literature, selecting relevant papers, data extraction, critical appraisal and thematic synthesis.ResultsEight studies revealed 10 subthemes, 3 descriptive themes and 1 analytical theme: resilience occurs when nurses incorporate stressful aspects of their personal or professional lives into a coherent narrative that enhances their ability to cope with the demands of their role.ConclusionPalliative care nursing is more stressful if patients or situations remind nurses of personal experiences. Nurses cope better with adequate support; however, coping does not necessarily imply increased resilience. Resilience occurs when nurses cognitively process their experiences, articulate their thoughts and feelings into a coherent narrative, and construct a sense of meaning or purpose. Future research could explore how nurses understand resilience and how it could be enhanced in the palliative care inpatient setting. With resilience, nurses may remain in the profession longer and improve the quality of care when they do.© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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