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Background: Resilience is the ability to survive and adapt to a difficult condition or pressure. Difficult conditions or pressures are also experienced by nursing professionals in providing effective nursing care services. Nurses who have high resilience are able to survive in stressful situations and stay fit at work. However, to increase nursing resilience is influenced by the individual characteristics of the nurse itself. Years of work, and age are characteristics that have an impact on individual conditions in solving problems. Objective: To find out the relationship between working age and nurses' resilience in a private Indonesian central hospital. Research Methods: This research is a quantitative study with a cross-sectional approach using Chi-square analysis. Sample: 54 respondents were used using the total sampling method. Instrument: used in this study was a questionnaire totaling 56 questions about resilience using a Likert scale. Results: The results showed that the age characteristics of nurses with low half resilience (48.1%) were the majority of 87% in the 25-34 year age range. While the characteristics of tenure with the highest nurse resilience> 3 years (63%). From the results of statistical analysis, work period with resilience p = 1.00 and age with resilience p = 0.401.Means there is no relationship between the length of work and age of nurses with resilience.

Nursing Characteriristics; Nursing Resilience