ORCID Identifier(s)

0000-0002-7240-3365

Graduation Semester and Year

2023

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing

Department

Nursing

First Advisor

Regina Wilder Urban

Abstract

This article-based manuscript dissertation will follow a two-manuscript process. The two manuscripts are related to work engagement, burnout, and well-being in the nursing professional development (NPD) practitioner. The first completed manuscript is a literature review that examines personal resources that affect work engagement, uncovers strategies to improve work engagement, and discusses the implications for the NPD practitioner. Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria for the literature review identifying self-efficacy, resilience, optimism, meaning, mattering, hardiness, and grit as personal resources influencing work engagement. Strategies identified to improve work engagement included policy development, implementing self-awareness programs, and providing resilience, strengths, and gratitude training. Implications included implementing strategies for NPD teams and the staff they professionally develop to improve work engagement. The second manuscript explored the relationships between work engagement, burnout, and well-being in NPD practitioners using a cross-sectional associational research design and web-based survey for data collection. Study results demonstrated that NPD practitioners maintained an average level of work engagement, had high levels of burnout, and low levels of well-being. Implications for NPD practitioners include developing strategies promoting increased self-awareness and nurturing personal resources. The second manuscript was submitted to the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development for peer review.

Keywords

Work engagement, Burnout, Well-being, Nursing professional development, Staff development

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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