Stress and resilience among newly graduated nurses of UiTM Puncak Alam / Hidatul Syafizal Zenal Ahmad Rozi and Nor Salmie Nadira Ngah

Background: Many studies have demonstrated that new nurses face several challenges because of the role change from a student to the registered nurse, the unfamiliar work environment, and also the difficulty of establishing good interpersonal relationships with colleagues.
Aim: To provide an overview of the level of stress and resilience among newly graduated nurses graduated from UiTM Puncak Alam and to determine the association between stress and resilience and stress, resilience and socio-demographic variables.
Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study design and purposive sampling were used in this study. A self-reported questionnaire consisting of questions on demographics, The Perceived Stress Scale and the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale CD-RISC 25 were collected from 165 newly graduated nurses of UiTM Puncak Alam, Selangor.
Results: Majority of the respondents have moderate level of resilience and extremely severe level of stress. Correlation analysis showed a strong association between the level of resilience and stress among newly graduated nurses (p-value= 0.001, r= -0.986). There are relationships present between the level of resilience and socio-demographic data of gender, age, working experience and intention to quit the nursing profession. Besides, there is a relationship between the level of stress and gender in this study. A strong association was found between highest academic qualification and resilience level which is nurses with bachelor's or postgraduate degree were about three times more likely than nurses with only a diploma to be of moderate or high resilience.
Conclusion: This study had confirmed that resilience is inversely proportional to the stress among newly graduated nurses. Age and working experience are the experience of life events that associated with higher resilience levels.