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The Influence of Spirituality on Professional Identity, Role Performance, and Career Resilience among Nursing Home Social Workers.
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Journal of Gerontological Social Work . Apr2024, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p306-321. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper explores how social workers integrate personal spirituality within nursing homes, where a highly regulated, stressful environment marginalizes professional identity and challenges retention. Researchers offer new evidence of how spirituality informs professional identity, ethical practice, and continuation in the role. Twenty BSW/MSW licensed nursing home social workers (NHSWs) reported how they daily navigate the personal spirituality-at-work opportunity and challenge. Qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews resulted in three primary codes and related subcodes: Spirituality-Integrated Professional Identity (Vocational Affirmation and Value Alignment), Spirituality-Informed Practice (Intervention Asset, Relational Affinity, and Ambiguous Boundaries), and Spiritually-Sustained Career Resilience. Respondents reported how spirituality animated professional identity, informed daily role enactment, and sustained role involvement. Recommendations are provided for normalizing ethical spirituality-at-work through social work education and practical guidance in navigating the spirituality and practice space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PROFESSIONAL ethics of social workers
*PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
*EMPLOYEE retention
*OCCUPATIONAL roles
*NURSING home employees
*SOCIAL workers
*PROFESSIONAL ethics
*QUALITATIVE research
*DATA analysis
*PROFESSIONAL practice
*WORK environment
*INTERVIEWING
*SOCIAL services
*PROFESSIONAL identity
*SOCIAL worker attitudes
*JUDGMENT sampling
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*NURSING care facilities
*REHABILITATION centers
*SOUND recordings
*THEMATIC analysis
*SOCIAL case work
*PRAYER
*SPIRITUALITY
*RESEARCH methodology
*HEALTH facilities
*SOCIAL boundaries
*DATA analysis software
*VOCATIONAL guidance
*PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01634372
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176294107
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2023.2262007