Creativity, Resilience and Sense of Humor among Nursing Graduates, Alexandria University, Egypt

Abstract

Background: The current and future global health and education challenges that face the nursing graduates, critically positioned them to be more creative and resilient. Creativity and resilience are essential for advancing the graduate-level nursing from a level of proficiency, which is expected at the undergraduate level to expert competency at the graduate-level. Indeed, using the sense of humor as a means of dealing with everyday problems and difficulties is much recognized recently as well as needed to be adopted by those graduates. Aim: investigate the relationship between resilience, creativity, and sense of humor among the nursing graduates. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional correlational design was used. The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt. A randomized sample of 165 graduate nurses was included. Online web-based electronic questionnaires were used comprising; A socio-demographic and Academic Data, SSCS, CD-RISC-10 and MSHS. Results: The results showed that 93.9%, 81.2% and 64.2% of the studied graduates had moderate to high levels of creativity, resilience, and sense of humor respectively. A positive statistically significant relationship at level of P≤ 0.01 between creativity, resilience and sense of humor was found. Humor production and creativity domain is the best predictor of both creativity and resilience among those graduates. Conclusion: It can be concluded that creativity, resilience, and sense of humour are related to each other, be a humor productive graduate nurse and using of humour as adaptive coping strategy in daily life situations contributes to be more creative and resilient. Finally, increase age of the graduates indicates to be more resilient. Recommendations: Providing the graduated nurses with the space to generate new ideas and innovations through filliped classroom, competence-based learning, problem-based learning, and interactive learning are recommended.