Adult Severe Asthma Registries: A Global and Growing Inventory.

Aim: The International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR; http://isaregistries.org/) uses standardised variables to enable multi-country and adequately powered research in severe asthma. This study aims to look at the data countries within ISAR and non-ISAR countries reported collecting that enable global research that support individual country interests.

Memories of nursing in Singapore - an oral history approach.

Background: Documentation of the voices of nurses provided valuable insight and a greater understanding of the nursing experience in Singapore.

Aim: To record nurses' experiences of journey of nursing profession in the acute care setting in Singapore from the early days of formalisation of nursing education to today's practice as a profession with various specialisation and career tracks.

Method: An oral history research approach was adopted, with purposive and snowball sampling to recruit nurses (both current and retired) who had trained in Singapore from 1956 which marked the beginning of the founding of the School of Nursing to current.

Differing pathways to resiliency: A grounded theory study of enactment of resilience among acute care nurses.

It is well-recognized that nurses are exposed to high levels of stress, thus resilience has been postulated as a key trait in enabling nurses to cope successfully and remain in the profession. In this qualitative study, we used Glaser's approach to grounded theory. Nine nurses who scored low and nine nurses who scored high on the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale were recruited for one-on-one semistructured interviews of the factors contributing to their work-related stress and how they overcome these stressors.

A Photovoice study on nurses' perceptions and experience of resiliency.

Aim: To explore the meaning of resilience to nurses and their perceived resilience enhancing factors.

Background: With challenges faced at work, nurses' professional quality of life is adversely affected with nurses experiencing compassion fatigue, depression, burnout and even signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. Degree of resilience can determine job satisfaction and nursing attrition.

Understanding the influence of resilience on psychological outcomes - Comparing results from acute care nurses in Canada and Singapore.

Background: Building resilience among nurses is one of the ways to support and retain nurses in the profession. Prior literature which evaluated influence of resilience on psychological outcomes, were conducted in relatively homogeneous populations. It is of interest to evaluate whether relationships between resilience and psychological outcomes remain consistent across nations and among different nursing populations.

Association between demographics and resilience - a cross-sectional study among nurses in Singapore.

Aim: To give an overview of the level of resilience among nurses in Singapore and to examine associations between various demographics variables and resilience level.

Background: The World Health Organization reported a global needs-based shortage of over 9 million nurses and midwives in 2013. Building resilience among nurses has been postulated as one of the ways to support and retain nurses in the profession.

Challenges faced by older nurses in Singapore: a mixed methods study.

Background: In Singapore, employees aged 62-65 can continue to be employed if they meet the re-employment eligibility criteria. This policy, coupled with an ageing workforce, calls for age-friendly initiatives, specific to work-related challenges faced by older nurses.

Aim: To determine work-related challenges faced by older nurses.

Demographics and Personality Factors Associated with Burnout among Nurses in a Singapore Tertiary Hospital.

Background. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence and extent of burnout among nurses in Singapore and investigate the influence of demographic factors and personal characteristics on the burnout syndrome. Methods.