Effect of Workplace Resilience Training Program on Job Involvement and Organizational Pride among Staff Nurses

Background: Recently, the nurses' positive perception of the nursing profession, job involvement and professional pride, playing a crucial role. Supporting the nurses' competences, continuous development and arranging personal training that encompassed through their workplace resilience shall contribute to increase the nurses' organizational pride and job involvement. Aim of the study: The study aimed at assessing the effect of workplace resilience training program on job involvement and organizational pride among staff nurses. Research design: A pretest-posttest one group quasi-experimental design was used in this study. Setting: The study was carried out at critical care units in Ain Shams University Hospital, which are connected to Ain Shams University Hospitals Cairo, Egypt. Subjects: This study consisted of all available staff nurses (n=98) who are working at the pre-mentioned setting. Tools of data collection: There were four tools namely, Resilience knowledge Questionnaire, Nurses Resilience Scale, Job Involvement Scale and Organizational Pride Scale. Results: Displayed that, more than one third (36%) of the studied staff nurses had satisfactory knowledge of workplace resilience at the pre-training program phase, then increased to 68% in the post-training program phase and became to 77% at follow-up. Also, one fifth (20%) of the studied staff nurses had high total workplace resilience level at the pre-training program, this improved to (80.4%) at post-training program phase, and became (80%) at follow-up phase. While more than half (51%) of the studied staff nurses had high job involvement level at the pre-training program, this improve to (73%) at post-training program phase, and became (76%) at follow-up phase. Additionally, there was improvement of all dimensions of organizational pride throughout training program phases. The post and follow-up phases demonstrated statistically significant improvement in total organizational pride among the studied staff nurses with medians ranging from (2.00 to 3.00). Conclusion: Workplace resilience training program had affected staff nurses' Job involvement and organizational pride, in which there was a highly statistically significant weak positive correlation between workplace resilience and organizational pride among the studied staff nurses. While, there was no statistically significant correlation between their knowledge score, job involvement and workplace resilience scores among the studied staff nurses. Recommendations: Establish a positive organizational climate, create resilient coping strategies, positive support systems and active coping skills among staff nurses through their workplace. Also, facsimile the study on a larger probability sample is highly suggested to bridge the small size of the samples and to generalize the results to include more organizations to produce different statistics.