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Abstract

CARO ALONSO, Pedro Ángel  and  RODRIGUEZ-MARTIN, Beatriz. Potentialities of resilience of nursing professionals. Index Enferm [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.1-2, pp.42-46. ISSN 1699-5988.

Justification:

resilience offered a hopefulvision for affliction and is a key tool for health promotion.

Aim:

to know the potentialities of resilience for nursing professionals after analysis of scientific evidence.

Methodology:

narrative review in databases MEDLINE (PubMed), SCOPUS, Scielo, Dialnet and CUIDEN of articles exploring the potentialities of resilience for nursing professionals. 17 articles were analysed.

Results:

resilience improves professionals’ personal strengths, their coping capacities, and the caregiving, reducing the vulnerability, and prevalence of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and Burnout Syndrome.

Conclusion:

resilience is a protective factor of health and an effective tool for health promotion, improving personal strengths and the caregiving. Resilience needs to be integrated into training and re-training programs.

Keywords : Psychological resilience; Nurses; Narrative review.

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