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. 2022 Aug 3;11(8):e37015. doi: 10.2196/37015

Table 1.

Outline of REsOluTioN training.

Components of REsOluTioNa Content Objectives
Mentorship sessions: establishing positive nurturing relationships and network
  • Nurturing personal relationships

  • Relationships that encourage and motivate

  • Crucial conversations for health care work

  • Focus on protective aspects of positive relationships and networks on the effects of workplace adversity

Module 1: building hardiness and maintaining a positive outlook
  • Defining positive outlook and personal hardiness

  • What is known about workplace hardiness?

  • Strategies for success: prioritizing activities in time-pressured environments, learned optimism, assertive communication

  • An authentic life

  • Self-esteem

  • Self-awareness: past, present, future

  • Identify the elements of a positive outlook and personality hardiness related to nursing

  • Demonstrate benefits of a positive outlook and developing hardiness for job satisfaction, health, and well-being

  • Formulate individual strategies for improving and maintaining a positive outlook and hardiness

Module 2: IFb and EIc
  • IF: definitions and characteristics

  • Links to nursing research and resilience

  • Dimensions of EI

  • Emotional labor

  • Strategies for success: expand your thinking, creative thinking, self-monitoring, expressing emotion creatively

  • Define principles of IF and EI

  • Define significant existing research findings regarding IF and EI as they relate to nursing

  • Evaluate advantages of applying elements of IF and EI to nursing practice

  • Reflect on strategies to assist creative/critical thinking

Module 3: reflective and critical thinking
  • What is reflection?

  • Making meaning of experience

  • Moving from description to reflection

  • Understanding reflection

  • Therapeutic use of self

  • Reflective awareness

  • Reflective action

  • Identify importance of therapeutic use of self and reflection in expert practice

  • Demonstrate understanding of the benefits of the reflective process to nursing practice and its underlying knowledge, influences, and motivations

  • Define a model of reflection shown to increase critical thinking skills and develop reflexive practice

  • Analyze individual strategies to creatively access and explore the reflection process

Module 4: achieving life balance and enabling spirituality
  • Work/life balance: What is balance?

  • Why is it so hard?

  • Envisioning work/life balance

  • Historical, gender, and power contexts

  • Assumptions about “juggling”

  • Strategies for success: being comfortable doing less; adding new things to life

  • Enabling spirituality: definition

  • Spirituality and nursing care, health

  • Women, spirituality, and communities

  • Define the importance of an awareness of work/life balance for health and well-being

  • Demonstrate strategies for improving work/life balance

  • Formulate historical/political background of women’s roles in caring and other work

  • Explore some aspects of spiritually responsive nursing care available to them

  • Explore personal perspectives on individual spirituality and its relationship to contemporary lifestyles

All modules (cross-cutting): moving forward and planning for the future
  • The reflective process

  • Reflection and expert practice

  • Strategies for success: thinking critically, reflection circuit, exhibition and participant presentations, planning for the future (goal setting)

  • Identify features of a resilient person and relate them to individual experiences

  • Formulate strategies for continuation and permanency of resilient beliefs and behaviors

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the ongoing process of resilience and the protective benefits of committing to the long-term maintenance of personal well-being

aREsOluTioN: Resilience Enhancement Online Training for Nurses.

bIF: intellectual flexibility.

cEI: emotional intelligence.