Engaged nurses perform better than non-engaged nurses for four reasons, first, engaged nurses often experience positive emotions, including gratitude, joy and enthusiasm. Second, engaged nurses experience better mental health; nurses can focus and dedicate all the skills and energy resources to their work. Third, engaged nurses create their own job, and personal resources. Finally, engaged nurses transfer their engagement to others in their immediate environment (Murthy, 2014).
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Also, work engaged nurses have better psychosomatic and physical health; it fewer self-rated psychosomatic symptoms such as headaches, stomach aches, and cardiac complaints, low levels of depression and distress, it helps individuals derive positive benefits from stressful work (Seppälä, et al., 2012). Furthermore, engaged nurses have high levels of self-efficacy and energy, as well as being productive and generally more positive (Taştan,