A nurse’s ability to bounce back, adapt to stress and
adversity, and thrive after being involved in particularly
stressful situations is considered a positive, multidimensional
adaptation of resilience that is influenced by individual
variables such as age, life experience, education, and
spirituality (American Psychological Association [APA],
2014). Resilient individuals that tend to exhibit an “internal
locus of control, pro-social behavior, empathy, positive selfimage
and optimism,”