Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program

摘要

Aron Wildavsky [ ] is a key figure in safety research and defines resilience as « ” (p. 77). A main feature in this conceptualization is that resilience deals with the dangers that have been realized (manifested) and learning emerges as a key element in enabling resilience [ ]. Wildavsky [ ] emphasises the notions of (Lovins & Lovins [ ] – in Wildavsky [ ]). Active resilience includes a deliberate effort to improve various abilities to cope with surprises and to use stress as a source of learning, thus actively benefiting from stressful situations. By contrast, passive resilience relates to the ability to bounce back and get back to normal procedures, after an adaptive change has happened, without any further development of skills or systems ([ ], p. 98). It follows that the link between resilience and learning is important to explore and understand, such as how learning processes are associated with adaptations in work performance in the face of manifest risks, dangers, and opportunities.