Staff Nurses' Resilience: Its Relation to Moral Intelligence and Professional Compatibility

Abstract

Background: Staff nurses face various stressful situations may affect their mental health and ability to provide care, so resilience and moral intelligence, are of great importance to improve nurses' problem-solving abilities, coping strategies and avoid extreme emotional responses and professional compatibility to achieve effective organizational outcomes. Aim : Assess staff nurses' resilience and its relation to moral intelligence and professional compatibility. Design: A descriptive correlation research design. Setting: At critical care units and departments in Shebin El Kom Teaching Hospitals and outpatient clinics departments. Study subjects: A convenient sampling technique include (226) staff nurses were participated in the study. Tools: Three tools were used named Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, Moral Intelligence Questionnaire and Professional Compatibility Scale. Results : The study findings indicated that there were a high percentage of participant staff nurses at high level of resilience (69 %), moral intelligence (63.50%) and professional compatibility (61.50%). Conclusion: the study concluded that, there was a high positive statistical significance correlation between participant staff nurses' resilience, moral intelligence, and professional compatibility. Recommendations: Nursing educational institutions ought to equip graduates with rational thinking, perception of personal competence and acceptance of change to improve level of resilience, which in turn enhance moral intelligence and professional compatibility