A conceptual triad for resilience
A famous quote by the American author, Charles R. Swindoll, “Life is 10 percent what happens to you, and 90 percent how you react to it,” is a foundational statement for the existence of resilience. When detrimental situations occur, it's how you deal with them, then how you move on that determines your ability to bounce back the next time a difficult situation arises. Resiliency feeds upon itself; it's self-propagative. How does an overwhelmed, self-defeated nurse leader begin the repetitive and enduring cycle of resiliency? The relationship between the concepts within the proposed and untested triad model of nurse leader resiliency, as seen in Figure 1, may create some initial awareness and strategy for the struggling nurse leader.