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Background: Research conducted in the clinical area promotes the delivery of evidence-based patient care. Involving nurses as participants in research is considered essential to link patient care with evidence-based interventions. However recruitment is influenced by nurses' competing demands and understanding engagement strategies may assist future research. Aim: This reflective analysis aimed to understand influencing factors and strategies that support successful recruitment nurses in clinical research. Method: A reflective analysis of research notes and focus group data from research with oncology nurses was completed. Results: This research identified that gaining support from key staff, understanding work constraints and developing a rapport with nurses is important. Establishing clear relevance and benefits of the research and being flexible with research requirements enabled nurses to participate in the research. Conclusion: Clear information and a willingness to accommodate the demands and dynamic nature of the environment, ensures ongoing support and engagement of nurses in the clinical setting as participants in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss notions of supportive care, stress for oncology nurses in provision of such care, and practical strategies for stress management. Role-related stress and burn-out in oncology nurses are challenges that require effective management at both organisational and personal levels. Oncology nurses, as do others, strive to provide exemplary nursing care for people affected by cancer, and their families. These needs reach across the physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual dimensions, and change over time from diagnosis through to end of life. One source of stress for many oncology nurses is the attempt to manage tensions that arise from trying to provide a person-centred approach to care in a biomedically driven and physically focused health care delivery system. The key concepts of self-awareness, self-care and resilience will be discussed and specific practices that empower nurses to better management stress will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose/Objectives: To advance understanding of resilience as an innate resource and its potential and relevance in the management of workplace stress for oncology nurses.Data Sources: Journal articles and research results, particularly seminal literature from a variety of Australian and international journals and published texts, including government and nursing organizations.Data Synthesis: Resilience is defined as an innate energy or motivating life force present to varying degrees in every individual, exemplified by the presence of particular traits or characteristics that, through application of dynamic processes, enable an individual to cope with, recover from, and grow as a result of stress or adversity. Literature from a wide variety of fields, including physics, medicine, theology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, was reviewed to build an overview of existing knowledge and evolving theories on the subject of resilience and further the understanding of resilience as an innate personal resource.Conclusions: Innate resilience can be developed or enhanced through cognitive transformational practices, education, and environmental support. Such processes may have use in ameliorating the effects of workplace stress.Implications for Nursing: The complex nature of oncology and other specialty nursing roles creates a certain amount of inevitable stress that depletes the self and may lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. A greater understanding of resilience as an innate stress response resource highlights the need for processes that support resilience development and organizational and personal stress-management strategies for nurses to be part of mainstream nursing education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]