Personal Resources and Work Engagement: A Literature Review

The level of nurse work engagement affects reten-tion, burnout, job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and outcomes. However, there is a paucity of evidence identifying the specific personal resources that benefit nurse work engagement and mechanisms to develop personal resources. The purpose of this review was to examine which personal resources affect work engage-ment, reveal strategies to improve work engagement, and uncover implications for the nursing professional development practitioner. A total of 400 articles re-sulted from a review of the literature, with 14 studies meeting inclusion criteria. Personal resources varied. Interventions to promote the development of per-sonal resources are described.