Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2018, Volume : 9, Issue : 3
First page : ( 755) Last page : ( 759)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2018.00378.9

Relationship between Post-traumatic Growth and Egoresilience of nurses in the Emergency Department

Park Ji-Hyun¹, Son Hee Jung¹

¹Dept. of Nursing, Yeungnam University College, South Korea

Online published on 14 May, 2018.

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the post-traumatic growth according to the degree of ego-resilience of the nurses in the emergency department. In a descriptive study, 131 emergency department nurses were participated. The nurses answered self-questionnaires assessing ego-resilience and post-traumatic growth. we compared between upper and lower groups of ego-resilience among nurses. Chi-square test and t-test were used to analysis the effectiveness of ego-resilience. The general characteristic of both groups had no significant difference between both groups except the preferred department (t=5.449, p=.019). However, upper groups had high level of ego-resilience than lower groups (t=7.459, p<.001). Also, there were significantly difference in post-traumatic growth between both groups. Consequently, ego-resilience has a great influence on the nursing practice of emergency department. Ego-resilience also helped to improve post-traumatic growth among emergency department nurses. It can be utilized as one of the administrative strategies to reduce the turnover intention of the nurses.

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Keywords

Ego resilience, Post-traumatic growth, Emergency department, Nurse, Post-traumatic stress.

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