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The Relationship Between Nursing Faculty Stress And Gratitude Journaling, Kathleen L Whalen Jan 2022

The Relationship Between Nursing Faculty Stress And Gratitude Journaling, Kathleen L Whalen

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“The relationship between nursing faculty stress and gratitude journaling”

Kathleen L. Whalen, MS RN – Regis University

The National League for Nursing (NLN) has reported a national shortage of nursing faculty. Some of the factors involved are limited qualified faculty, schools’ inability to offer competitive wages, and faculty leaving due to stress or retiring. A quality improvement project was developed for full-time faculty in a university nursing program in dealing with stress, which could aid in retention. A quasi-experiment with a pre-test and post-test design was used to measure participants’ stress using the Perceived Stress Scale–10 (PSS-10) before and after …