Resilience is a dirty word: misunderstood, and how we can truly build it

Resilience is ubiquitous in everyday speech, academic literature and governmental policies. Yet it seems to have taken a narrow scope in healthcare, confined to individual and psychological resilience. This short essay aims to broaden the understanding of resilience to organisational levels and call...

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Published in:Critical care (London, England) England), 2022-06, Vol.26 (1), p.168-3, Article 168
Main Author: Tan, Mark Z Y
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burnout
Burnout, Professional - psychology
Care and treatment
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Critical care
Critical care medicine
Health aspects
Humans
Intensive care
Leadership
Mental health
Microaggressions
Mindfulness
Organisational culture
Pandemics
Patient safety
Patients
Psychological aspects
Resilience
Resilience (Personality trait)
Resilience, Psychological
Social aspects
Society
Well-being
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Summary:Resilience is ubiquitous in everyday speech, academic literature and governmental policies. Yet it seems to have taken a narrow scope in healthcare, confined to individual and psychological resilience. This short essay aims to broaden the understanding of resilience to organisational levels and calls intensivists to take active roles in fostering resilience for their staff. The article explores firstly the background and etymology of resilience. It then challenges current approaches and briefly signposts some current work in the area. Some examples of structural factors which build individual resilience are listed, followed by a call for intensivists to take active roles to build future resilience. The need for interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and multi-level approaches is vital to build future healthcare resilience, and we intensivists must continue to be advocates for systemic change.
ISSN:1364-8535
1466-609X
1364-8535
1366-609X
DOI:10.1186/s13054-022-04040-x