ABSTRACT
As all nurses are aware, healthcare is experiencing a time of great change. This change can lead to stress, nurse vacancy rates, and burnout. However, the effects of stress can be mitigated by personal hardiness. This article presents an overview of hardiness, as well as the results of a qualitative study to describe hardiness in the workplace.
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Burnout, Professional/prevention & control , Critical Care/psychology , Intergenerational Relations , Nursing Staff, Hospital/psychology , Resilience, Psychological , Adaptation, Psychological , Adult , Age Factors , Burnout, Professional/psychology , Cohort Effect , Cooperative Behavior , Critical Care/organization & administration , Health Facility Environment , Humans , Internal-External Control , Middle Aged , Nurse's Role/psychology , Nursing Methodology Research , Nursing Staff, Hospital/organization & administration , Personnel Loyalty , Personnel Turnover/statistics & numerical data , Professional Autonomy , Qualitative Research , Southwestern United States , Surveys and Questionnaires , Workplace/organization & administration , Workplace/psychologyABSTRACT
Medical futility is a concept commonly used to describe medical therapy that has no known or anticipated immediate or long-term benefit for a patient. The concept of futility has existed since the time of Hippocrates and has become the predominant dilemma for many end-of-life situations. Today, clinicians grapple with ethical conflicts and concepts in their daily practice. Many healthcare providers use the concept of medical futility when they are talking with patients and families who are in a quandary about their loved one's care. This article provides an overview of medical futility.
