Burnout and resilience in critical care nurses: A grounded theory of Managing Exposure.

Background: Many critical care nurses experience burnout; however, resilience shows promise as a potential solution to burnout. This study was conducted to better understand nurse burnout and resilience in response to workplace adversity in critical care.

Design: A grounded theory investigation, using the Corbin and Strauss methodology.

Resisting, reaching out and re-imagining to independence: LPN's transitioning towards BNs and beyond.

Little is known about the process of how nurses transition between vocational training and institutions of higher education. Understanding this process provides educators with the knowledge to support new groups of university students making this transition. Grounded theory (GT) was used to explore and understand this process.

A tale of two cultures: specialists and generalists sharing the load.

Objective: To understand what contributes to good collaborative physician working relationships through identifying the factors that affect working relationships between generalist physicians and specialists.

Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews.

Setting: University and community hospital inpatient family practice settings in Edmonton, Alta.