10 10th EORNA Congress Stavanger, Norway | 12 - 15 May 2022 Symposia S07 Sailing the unprecedented winds of global perioperative practice D. Peneza1 1Memorial Hermann Hospital - Texas Medical Center, Houston, United States As the multiple global crises emerge leaders continue to race against time, clinical safety, and finding balance. This presentation outlines the journey of an internationally educated clinical and volunteer leader as she journeys the tides of the global pandemic and other unforeseen crises while boosting team dynamics, ensuring success in professional involvements, and finding one’s true power as a novice nurse - a leader in the frontline. Successful global strategies on innovative leadership and creative education will be shared to illustrate and paint the trend of the future. Symposium: Leadership skills: Shift the focus on resilience S08 Assessment of factors that affect stress level on operating room nurses M. Elin1 1HaEmeck Medical Center, Operation Room, Afula, Israel Background: It’s a well-known fact that nurses are suffering from stress in their workplace. This especially shows up in such departments as emergency, intensive care units and operation theaters. There is no evidence of what primarily cause stress in operating room nurses and which nurses are especially influenced by these factors. Aim: This paper provides a study exploring factors that affect the stress level on operating room nurses and compares the reaction to stressful situations of well-experienced and less-experienced nurses. Methods: The focus group was conducted with 74 operating theatre nurses in three public hospitals in Israel. The paper version of the questionnaire that was designed by the researcher, based on the STAI questionnaire, was distributed to operating room nurses. The research data were collected in a computer database and statistical survey was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23. Findings: From the analysis of the collected data, three themes were identified: 1. The operating room nurses with experience of 6 years and less in OR, has a higher level of stress. 2. The highest level of stress was shown in those situations in which professional skills are necessary for quick and effective action. 3. The general level of stress in the Environment category of stressful situations was higher for nurses with more than 6 years of OR experience. Conclusions: The most obvious finding to emerge from this study is that nurses with experience in operating theater of 6 years and fewer have a higher level of stress in comparison to their more experienced colleagues. The highest level of stress was reported on professional issues are related to the lack of knowledge of equipment or complex operations with an unexpected scenario. Also, urgent emergency operations and multi-trauma can cause an extremely high level of stress in less experienced nurses. S09 How to keep your head when all around you are losing theirs. Resilience skills. Can we learn them? T. Donnelly1,2 1Sligo University Hospital, Nurse Practice Development Unit, Sligo, Ireland, 2Sligo University Hospital, Sligo, Ireland Resilience is a concept that refers to an individual’s ability to bounce back or positively respond to adversity. Psychological characteristics of resilience that can be learned include positive coping skills, engaging the support of others, optimism, humour, and cognitive restructuring (Mealer et al, 2014). Irrespective of the method or approach there appears to be a demand for the design and implementation of stress management that promote resilience for employees. This may reduce burnout and attrition. It can be achieved by offering counselling and other occupational health measures that promote the physical and mental wellbeing of staff. However, the provision of an opportunity for careers to discuss the psychological and emotional aspects of their work may encourage the development of resilience (Gray, 2012).
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