id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_opzorr6b6zhvzlz6rxcufiqjfy Rose Chapman Nurses' experience of adjusting to workplace violence: A theory of adaptation 2010 9 .pdf application/pdf 6383 485 57 identified how nurses in several areas of a hospital setting adapted to workplace violence, research cognitive processes of finding meaning, gaining mastery and enhancing the self to adapt to workplace KEY WORDS: adjusting, cognitive adaptation, nurses' experience, workplace violence. the adaptation strategies nurses use to achieve and maintain the integrity of their psychological self and maintain Studies have shown that finding meaning in a threatening event has been associated with positive psychological and mental health outcomes (Draucker 2001). This study aimed to explore how nurses adapt to WPV and meaning of the nurse participants' experience of WPV demonstrated that all nurses in our study used these cognitive adaptive processes to adjust to their experiences of literature that investigated nurses' use of mastery following an episode of WPV, the findings from our study explore in some detail nurses' cognitive adaptation processes following episodes of WPV and as such offers new ./cache/work_opzorr6b6zhvzlz6rxcufiqjfy.pdf ./txt/work_opzorr6b6zhvzlz6rxcufiqjfy.txt