Nursing Care: Resilience, Belonging, and Emotional Intelligence

This essay examines the critical aspects of nursing care, focusing on the development of resilience, emotional intelligence, and a sense of belonging among nurses. It explores how these qualities, along with effective communication and person-centered care, are essential for newly graduated nurses to navigate the challenges of their profession. The essay defines key concepts such as resilience, which enables nurses to cope with stress; emotional intelligence, which helps in managing emotions; and belongingness, which fosters a supportive work environment. It also discusses the importance of communication in providing quality patient care and the principles of person-centered care, including treating patients with dignity and respect. The essay highlights how these elements collectively contribute to the well-being of nurses and the delivery of superior healthcare services, ultimately emphasizing the need for newly graduated nurses to cultivate these skills for success in their practice. The essay underscores the importance of these factors in enhancing patient outcomes and promoting a positive work environment for healthcare professionals. The paper also discusses the key features of the mentioned concepts and how they help a newly graduated nurse in providing care for the patients.

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Introduction
Most nurses find their career rewarding. However, many of these nurses would also agree
that they perform their duties in a profession that is mentally and physically challenging, but it is
a nurturing as anyone would expect. This essay will discuss the support of nurses that leads to
the development of resilience, emotional intelligence, and a feeling of belonging. The
characteristics that they possess will assist them in coping with the challenges that they come
across in their everyday life at the workplace. The paper will also discuss the key features of the
mentioned concepts and how they help a newly graduated nurse in providing care for the
patients.
Concept
Resilience-this refers to the ability of a person to recover after being compressed.
Resilience is an outstanding quality that all nurses require due to the stressful nature of the
nursing profession (Parker, Gile, Lantry, & McMillan, 2014). Resilience is an essential factor in
nursing since it helps them to offset the factors that upsurge the risk of mental health conditions
such as trauma and unnecessary bullying. Nurses who have a high degree of resilience also
possess excellent communication skills and therefore find it easy when solving problems.
Resilient nurses can manage an intense sensation of emotional reaction to given conditions or
challenges. Resilience does not make problems go away but instead provides the nurse with the
ability to see past the challenges being faced and hence relieve stress (Zaccagnini & Pechacek,
2019).

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Belongingness
This is one of the most critical features in a clinical setting for work reliability.
Belongingness is a compelling feature in predicting stress, satisfaction, and self-esteem in a
clinical setting (Phillips, Kenny, Esterman, & Smith, 2014). Nurses who experience a sense of
belonging in a clinical setting are more active and progressively motivated in performing their
duties. The clinical staff and head nurses are supposed to perform their duties properly, in the
provision of a supportive and facilitative environment in a clinical setting, for the newly
graduated nurses to feel accepted and valued in the nursing profession. With the installation of
the critical values and in the profession, the nurses will make the nurses feel accepted and valued
too (Andrew, et al., 2014).
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence in a clinical setting refers to the ability, capability, and skills to
identify and manage emotions for a nurse, the patients, and also the whole nursing fraternity.
Emotional intelligence is essential for the newly graduated nurses since it helps them to
understand how their emotions can affect the patients.it is also vital since it helps in self-
regulation when the emotions are high due to pressure from the increased work. Emotional
intelligence helps in facilitating a positive environment and consequently has the potential to
impact on the quality of the services being provided by the newly graduated nurses (Chachula,
Myrick, & Yonge, 2015).

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Communication
Communication is the most critical factor, not only in a clinical setting but also in all
aspects of life. Communication in healthcare is crucial since it provides patient care and
improves patient satisfaction (Missen, McKenna, & Beauchamp, 2016). Poor communication can
easily lead to illnesses, poor satisfaction score for the patient, and even worse than that. Efficient
communication between nurses and patients is vital for positive patient outcome. Effective
communication enables nurses to improve the quality of individualized patient care. Patients
need to have the feeling of safety during the time they are receiving treatment and also when
they are in the recovery period. Excellent communication is vital for newly graduated nurses
since they need to demonstrate acts of kindness, courtesy, and sincerity (LoBiondo-Wood &
Haber, 2014).
Person-Centered Care
Person-Centered care refers to one of the thirteen basic standards of care that he care
quality commission requires every healthcare provider to adhere to (Laschinger, Borgogni, &
Consiglio, 2016). Deliverance of person-centered care involves taking care of patients beyond
their condition and tailoring the nursing care services to suit the wants of the individuals. It is all
about respecting the fact that they have their personal views towards what is the best service that
needs to be offered to them and have their values in life. Healthcare providers are, therefore
required to know the person on an individual basis and actively involve them when making
health-related care decisions. When the patients are involved when decisions are being made for
them, they feel that they are not objects but rather human beings who have thoughts and feelings
(Brennan, 2017).

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Person-Centered care puts the person in heart. The nurses adapt the services they offer to
the expectations of the patient. The latter makes it possible for the patients to retain their dignity
and autonomy in times of adverse challenges. There are several principles that healthcare
providers should always keep in mind whenever offering person-centered care (Dwyer & Revell,
2016).
Treating Patients with Dignity and Respect
When being a nurse, people who are under person-centered car lose their independence,
which puts their dignity at risk. Person-centered care makes it possible for nurses to treat patients
with compassion and respect. Nurses have in mind that the persons to whom care is administered
have their thoughts, feelings, and opinions which should not be invalidated by the care
requirements. It is essential to respect their personal quality since this will make the patient feel
validated and cared for both physically and emotionally (Hofler & Thomas, 2016).
Provision of Care and Support
Nurses have to coordinate care with other social services for the patients. As the patient
moves from services or caregivers; there is a need to understand their wants and needs.it is also
important to record the personal needs of the patients (Numminen, Leino-Kilpi, Isoaho, &
Meretor, 2015)
Offer Personalized Care
This is the basic principle in person-centered care. This guideline is the core of
individual-focused consideration (Pineau Stam, 2015). It expects the nurses to comprehend that
what works for one service client may not be appropriate for another. A standardized
methodology can influence their capacity to recuperate or deal with their condition appropriately,
and – relying upon their situations and qualities – may harm their satisfaction. Customizing

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nursing support of every patient enables them to hold a portion of their freedom and satisfy their
own needs and needs (Goode, 2016).
Enabling Service Users to Recognize and Develop Their Strengths and Capabilities
Giving personal centered consideration requires including patients in choices and helping
them take activities to help themselves (Flinkman & Salanterä, 2015). Doing so make them build
up their very own abilities and a comprehension of how to take care after themselves freely.
Satisfying this rule is commonly useful. The patient will feel in more noteworthy control of their
life and less dependent on social insurance administrations. Therefore, a nurse has more
opportunity to take care of patients with progressively critical conditions. Nurses need to keep in
mind that this is exceptional equity. Attempting to drive patients to accomplish more individually
can make patients feel like the nurses would prefer not to help, while a lot of association makes
them feel like they have no state. Everything necessary to stay away from this is keeping up a
continuous discourse with the patient and their delegates (Pfaff, Baxter, & Jack, 2014).
Critical Consideration
Communication
Effective communication between nurses and patients is useful for the newly graduated
nurses since it helps them to understand the experience and difficulties that the patients have
(Missen, McKenna, & Beauchamp, 2016). Effective communication requires the freshly
graduated nurse equip himself or herself with the needed skill and give sincere attention to
comprehend the needs of a patient. Comprehension of the client only is not adequate. It is good
to convey a message that is easily understandable and acceptable. Effective communication is

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crucial since it reflects the knowledge that the patient has and can help the nurses to understand
the way a patient feels or thinks about their capabilities (Hart, 2014).
For the newly graduated nurses to be successful in their practice, there is a need to study
communication and interpersonal relations. Newly graduated nurses are supposed to show
various aspects of effective communication to meet the needs of the patients. Excellent
communication is also essential for the newly graduated nurses since it helps them to realize the
quality of care that they have to offer to the patients. It is an absolute right and forms a
prerequisite for the construction of a genuine and responsible relationship between the newly
graduated nurses and patients. For the newly graduated nurses to realize their dreams and apply
the knowledge they acquired in school, they need to have a dialogue and pleasant interpersonal
climate which will develop personality and closeness between the patient and the nurses. Nurses
have to develop a proper communication technique which will make it possible for the patients
to give an appropriate response and increase the quality of service being offered (Hofler &
Thomas, 2016).
Emotional intelligence
Consideration of emotions is a vital component in the quality of healthcare delivered and
also essential in decision making (Laschinger, Borgogni, & Consiglio, 2016). The newly
graduated nurses need to gain social awareness which is highly influenced by emotions. Nurses
also need to have self-awareness which will enable them to communicate their feelings,
thoughts, and actions in decision making to create a conducive environment for the patients.
Self-awareness is also important for the newly graduates nurses since it encourages the use of
empathy, as a basis for the comprehension of situations that are based on professional reflections,

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and moral judgments which have a direct association with decision making (Numminen, Leino-
Kilpi, Isoaho, & Meretor, 2015).
Resilience
Resilience is a vital factor when nurses are dealing with difficult situations.it is important
since it helps nurses to bounce back from difficulties and challenges (Phillips, Kenny, Esterman,
& Smith, 2014). Newly graduated nurses need to have resilience within them to solve difficult
problems. Nurses should possess high levels of resilience which will help them in solving stress-
related issues. And encounter less burnout. Nurses who develop resilience in themselves are
capable of managing strong feelings and emotional reactions. However, resilience does not work
automatically and adequately for every nurse. An increased level of resilience in the nursing
profession can lower effectiveness in leadership in healthcare. Resilience can also act as an
inhibitor in self-awareness and also affects the ability of nurses to maintain the self-concept,
which is a primary factor in the development of the nursing career (Brennan, 2017).
Belongingness
Belongingness is frequently seen as a viable factor in the expectation of stress, fulfillment
with clinical setting, confidence, and self-coordinated learning, lastly important, and distinctive
component of motivation (Ortiz, 2016). The nurses who experience a feeling of belongingness in
the instructive settings are progressively dynamic and propelled in instructive exercises.
Neglecting to have a solid sense of belongingness is known to influence understudies' learning
by the effect firmly. It applies to their practical capacity and learning inspiration. The concept of
belongingness is essential in living creatures. Human beings are extraordinary creatures who

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need to be associated with each other in various perspectives. It is one of the fundamental factors
for newly graduated nurses to work within a clinical setting. A sense of belonging is crucial since
it helps the newly graduated nurses to understand and recognize features among patients who
would reduce stress and tension (Andrew, Denise , Freda , Linda, & Debbie, 2014).
Conclusion
The newly graduated nurses are faced with several challenges in a clinical setting. It is,
therefore, important to have several skills for the nurses to survive. Emotional intelligence is
essential for them to solve difficult situations and also recover from difficulties. The feeling of
belongingness helps in the creation of self-awareness and management of stress acts as a
motivation to them. Resilience, on the other hand, is essential since it helps them in bouncing
back from difficulties or challenges. Excellent communication, on the other, helps the nurses to
offer improved care for the patients. Effective communication is also essential since it helps the
newly graduated nurses to know the difficulties that the patient is going through.

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