2024 Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 23-33
Objective: To determine the relationship between critical incidents by hospital nurses and stress reactions, resilience, and social support by years of work experience. Methods: Researchers surveyed 1,352 nurses from 3 general hospitals using anonymous questionnaires. Results: After conducting logistic regression analyses, with depression and traumatic stress reaction being dependent variables, innate resilience showed a significant association with traumatic stress reaction for nurses with 1 to 3 years work experience. For nurses with 4 to 9 years work experience, sexual harassment, mental abuse, excessive work demands, and innate resilience was significantly associated with depression, while psychological violence, mental abuse, excessive work demands, and innate resilience had significant association with traumatic stress reactions. Nurses with 10 or more years of experience showed sexual harassment and peer support to be significantly associated with depression, while psychological violence, mental abuse, severing human relationships, and peer support was significantly associated with traumatic stress reactions. Conclusion: This study suggests that it is important for nurses with 1 to 3 years of work experience and 4 to 9 years of work experience to have support to strengthen their resilience, and for those with 10 or more years of work experience to have a work environment that provides social support.
