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Background and objective: Burnout is one of the key factors in reducing efficiency and‌ it causes loss‌ of manpower and physical complications‌.‌ Personality characteristics such as resiliency is abuffer against stressful events and work-related psychological problems such as burnout.‌ Given the important role of nurses in health-care‌‌system , this study ‌investigates The relationship between resiliency and burnout in nurses.
Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 304 nurses working in the hospitals in Tehran,‌ ‌‌2010.‌ The subjects were chosen by multi-stage cluster sampling.‌ The instruments were Maslach burnout inventory (MBI), Connor-Davidson Resiliency Scale (CD-RISC) and a demographic check-list. The data was analyzed by SPSS-18.
Results:‌‌ Overall, the findings showed high emotional exhaustion, (32.6% in frequency 9.9% in intensity),‌ ‌depersonalization (25.7% in frequency 18.1% in severity) and personal failure (42.1% in frequency ‌60.9% in severity). ‌The relationship between burnout and resiliency‌ was significant (0.01‌).
Conclusion: Given the resiliency is one of the predictors of burnout we recommend some workshops to increase the resiliency-related skills of the nurses.

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Background and Objective: Given that nurses need numerous skills and high concentration in their job, they   endure a lot of stress leading to serious physical and psychological consequences. We aimed to investigate the effect spiritual intelligence and self-efficacy on nurses’ resilience.

Material and Methods: This correlation study was conducted on 180 nurses (149 females and 31 males)   selected via stratified random sampling in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences’ Hospitals, 2013.  The questionnaires were  resiliency of Connor and Davidson,  spiritual intelligence of King,  and self-efficacy of Sherer and Maddux. The data was analyzed by Pearson Correlation and Step-wise Regression.

Results: Nurses self-efficacy (r=0.59, p≤0.001) and nurses spiritual intelligence (r=0.50, p≤0.001) had a positive significant correlation with resiliency.  Regression showed that in first step self-efficacy (0.35) and in next step self-efficacy and   spiritual intelligence (0.46) were the positive predictors for resiliency.

Conclusion: It seemes that  by developing self-efficacy and spiritual intelligence,  we can increase the resilincy and consequently minimize the level of nurses' job stress.