Mindfulness Bundle Toolkit’s Impact on Nurse Burnout
Gisele N. Bazan, Tiffany Patterson, Kelsey Sawyer, Deborah Wambui Kamau, Michelle Bradberry, Cynthia Grissman, Sahar Mihandoust, Jamie K. Roney Hernández, C. Randall Stennett, JoAnn D. LongBackground
Nurse burnout is a widespread problem affecting nurses’ physical and mental health and patients’ satisfaction. Nurses in intensive care units designated for patients with COVID-19 during the pandemic reported experiencing higher levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and stress and exhaustion and lower levels of personal accomplishment. The current literature does not have a solution to combat burnout.
Objective
To test the effectiveness of a mindfulness bundle toolkit on burnout for nurses caring for patients with COVID-19.
Methods
A quantitative quasi-experimental design was used. Participants were 52 frontline registered nurses caring for patients with COVID-19. A mindfulness bundle toolkit was provided with the goal of decreasing burnout in a 6-week period. Data were collected before intervention, immediately after intervention, and 6 weeks after intervention using the Maslach Burnout Inventory—Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel, the Nursing Work Index—Revised, and the Stress/Arousal Adjective Checklist. Results The analysis indicated a statistically significant effect from the mindfulness bundle toolkit in 3 areas pertaining to burnout: emotional exhaustion (Wilks Λ = .66; F1,41 = 19.02; P = .001; η2 = .31), depersonalization (Wilks Λ = .70; F1,41 = 7.93; P = .007; η2 = .16), and stress (Wilks Λ = .81; F1,41 = 8.81; P = .005; η2 = .17).
Conclusions
The results suggest that the use of a 6-week mindfulness bundle toolkit is an effective intervention to mitigate emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and stress associated with burnout in critical care nurses caring for patients with COVID-19.