1. The Influence of Spirituality on Professional Identity, Role Performance, and Career Resilience among Nursing Home Social Workers.
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Rogers, Robin K., Myers, Dennis R., Garrison, Brianna V., Singletary, Jon E., and McClellan, Angela
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PROFESSIONAL ethics of social workers , *PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience , *EMPLOYEE retention , *OCCUPATIONAL roles , *NURSING home employees , *SOCIAL workers , *PROFESSIONAL ethics , *QUALITATIVE research , *DATA analysis , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *WORK environment , *INTERVIEWING , *SOCIAL services , *PROFESSIONAL identity , *SOCIAL worker attitudes , *JUDGMENT sampling , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *NURSING care facilities , *REHABILITATION centers , *SOUND recordings , *THEMATIC analysis , *SOCIAL case work , *PRAYER , *SPIRITUALITY , *RESEARCH methodology , *HEALTH facilities , *SOCIAL boundaries , *DATA analysis software , *VOCATIONAL guidance , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors - Abstract
This paper explores how social workers integrate personal spirituality within nursing homes, where a highly regulated, stressful environment marginalizes professional identity and challenges retention. Researchers offer new evidence of how spirituality informs professional identity, ethical practice, and continuation in the role. Twenty BSW/MSW licensed nursing home social workers (NHSWs) reported how they daily navigate the personal spirituality-at-work opportunity and challenge. Qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews resulted in three primary codes and related subcodes: Spirituality-Integrated Professional Identity (Vocational Affirmation and Value Alignment), Spirituality-Informed Practice (Intervention Asset, Relational Affinity, and Ambiguous Boundaries), and Spiritually-Sustained Career Resilience. Respondents reported how spirituality animated professional identity, informed daily role enactment, and sustained role involvement. Recommendations are provided for normalizing ethical spirituality-at-work through social work education and practical guidance in navigating the spirituality and practice space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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