Promoting Resilience in Nurses: evaluating the impacts of a workplace resilience program on mental health nurse wellbeing

INTERVENTION: The Promoting Resilience in Nurses (PRiN) program is an applied and sustainable workplace prevention programme which aims to build individual resilience in the context of adversity and stress, increase mental health and wellbeing, and improve coping self‐efficacy and interpersonal communication strategies. The program is strengths‐based and incorporates the evidence‐base of cognitive behavioural and interpersonal approaches with posttraumatic growth theory. The PRiN program has been tailored for mental health nursing, including program content, activities and audio‐visual clips relevant to this specialty nursing field. The program is delivered by accredited trained facilitators (in this case, experienced mental health nurses) face‐to‐face in a peer‐group setting in 2 x 6 hour workshops spread three weeks apart. A workshop attendance checklist is kept for each program. The program is multimodal and manualized, employing a range of teaching modalities including workbooks, PowerPoint, group discussion (large and small) and individual activities. ‘Booster’ activities (1 per week) reinforcing particular resilience strategies in the program are sent by SMS to participants in between the two workshop days, with provision of monthly activities for each of three months following completion of the final workshop. Booster activities take 10 minutes. An example is to remind participants to use thought challenges to change negative self‐talk. Topics covered in the 6 program modules are: identifying strengths and understanding resilience; understanding and managing stress; challenging and changing negative self‐talk; drawing strength from adversity; promoting positive relationships and managing conflict; and creating solutions for well‐being. CONDITION: Mental Health ‐ Other mental health disorders Mental Health Nurses’ workplace stress; Mental Health Nurses' psychological wellbeing; ; Mental Health Nurses’ workplace stress ; Mental Health Nurses' psychological wellbeing PRIMARY OUTCOME: Coping Self‐Efficacy [Self‐report questionnaire data on coping self‐efficacy will be collected using the Coping Self‐efficacy Scale (Short) from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3) (primary endpoint).] INCLUSION CRITERIA: Registered Nurses and Enrolled Nurses currently employed at NorthWestern Mental Health, Victoria Australia working at least 0.8 Full‐Time Equivalent. An 0.8 Full‐Time Equivalent or above allows for managers to release staff from shifts to attend the program. SECONDARY OUTCOME: Emotional self‐regulation[Self‐report questionnaire data on emotional self‐regulation will be collected using the Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory (Short) from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).] Mental health[Self‐report questionnaire data on mental health will be collected using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).] Organisational belonging[Self‐report questionnaire data on organisational belonging will be collected using items from the Psychological Sense of Organisational Membership Scale from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).] Post‐Traumatic Growth[Self‐report questionnaire data on post‐traumatic growth will be collected using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (21) from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).] Psychological wellbeing[Self‐report questionnaire data on psychological wellbeing will be collected using the Mental Health Continuum Short‐form from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).] Resilience[Self‐report questionnaire data on resilience will be collected using the Brief Resilience Scale from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).] Turnover intention[Self‐report questionnaire data on turnover intention will be collected using the Turnover Intention Scale from both the intervention and control groups on entry to the study (T1), immediately after program delivery (T2) and 3 months after the program (T3).]