Investigating the Relationship between Career Resilience and Knowledge Sharing among Nurses Working in Tabriz’s Medical Teaching Centers

Nurses always suffer many job tensions and challenges that can affect their career resilience. Sharing knowledge and new experiences can play an effective role in strengthening their resilience. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between career resilience and knowledge sharing in nurses of medical education centers in Tabriz.

A descriptive design was used to conduct this study. The statistical population of the study included nurses from medical education centers affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 351 of whom were selected for the study using stratified sampling based on share. The data were collected with the consent of the nurses using career resilience questionnaire, knowledge sharing questionnaire and demographic questionnaire. SPSS-22 software and t-test, Pearson correlation and linear regression tests were used for data analysis.

The results showed that the level of career resilience of nurses in a scale of 0-100 is equal to 56.4 (SD=0.03) and the level of knowledge sharing is equal to 67.7 (SD=0.032). According to the results of bivariate relationships, the relationship between nurses' career resilience and knowledge sharing variables (r=0.402, p<0.001) and its three dimensions include; Sharing the best way of working (r=0.353, p<0.001), sharing errors and mistakes (r=0.204, p<0.001) and promoting ideas (r=0.435, p<0.001), age (r=0.311, p<0.001) and the hospital of service (low career resilience of nurses in corona-susceptible hospitals compared to other hospitals) was significant (p<0.001). The results of the regression model also showed that the three dimensions of knowledge sharing, age, and gender (despite the non-significance of this variable in bivariate relationships) remained in the model (R=0.26) and the explanatory power of idea promotion was more than other variables (Beta=0.292).

Knowledge sharing and its dimensions had a positive effect on nurses' resilience. Therefore, hospitals should support nurses who provide new ideas and experiences by rewarding and encouraging them. The level of resilience of female nurses was lower than that of males, which requires more attention to female nurses