Nurse Leader Mindfulness Meditation Program for Stress Management

Pipe, Teri Britt; Bortz, Jennifer J.; Dueck, Amylou C.; Pendergast, Debra; Buchda, Vicki L; Summers, Jay

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“…Studies support the positive benefits of meditation and compassion interventions on a number of health and well-being outcomes including burnout [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45], and a recent review of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) concludes that loving-kindness meditation (LKM) may be the most effective practice for increasing compassion [46]. Unfortunately, the duration of these interventions-often 8 to 15 weeks long-directly conflict with the limited time available to medical practitioners [45,[47][48][49]. There is a need for more effective and efficient interventions that require little time but still have the same positive affective consequences.…”

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Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care

Seppälä

Hutcherson

Nguyen

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J of Compassionate Health Care

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Background: Stress is a critical problem facing many healthcare institutions. The consequences of stress include increased provider burnout and decreased quality of care for patients. Ironically, a key factor that may help buffer the impact of stress on provider well-being and patient health outcomes-compassion-is low in healthcare settings and declines under stress. This gives rise to an urgent question: what practical steps can be taken to increase compassion, thereby benefitting both provider well-being and patient care? Methods: We investigated the relative effectiveness of a short, 10-minute session of loving-kindness meditation (LKM) to increase compassion and positive affect. We compared LKM to a non-compassion positive affect induction (PAI) and a neutral visualization (NEU) condition. Self-and other-focused affect, self-reported measures of social connection, and semi-implicit measures of self-focus were measured pre-and post-meditation using repeated measures ANOVAs and via paired sample t-tests for follow-up comparisons. Results: Findings show that LKM improves well-being and feelings of connection over and above other positive-affect inductions, at both explicit and implicit levels, while decreasing self-focus in under 10 minutes and in novice meditators. Conclusions: These findings suggest that LKM may be a viable, practical, and time-effective solution for preventing burnout and promoting resilience in healthcare providers and for improving quality of care in patients.

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confidence: 99%

Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care

Seppälä

Hutcherson

Nguyen

et al. 2014

J of Compassionate Health Care

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“…Now picture him/her vacuuming them up one at a time until they are all gone inside the vacuum bag. He/she takes out the -experiencing a method to aid reduction in stress and improvement in well-being and resiliency (Richards, Campenni, & Muse-Burke, 2010;Glomb, Duffy, Bono, & Yang, 2011) -enhanced levels of empathic selfawareness, self-compassion and emotional resilience (Shapiro, Brown and Biegel 2007;Krasner et al 2009;Pipe et al 2009;Napoli and Bonifas 2011) SfA, SM bag and drops it into a metal bin. And set light to it or 'magics it away' with the swipe of a wand.…”

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“…Pipe et al 2009;Napoli and Bonifas 2011) -strategic tool to reduce stress because: "An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body." (Dr Edmund Jacobson, 1929) -develop greater focus, build better relationships, and enhance creativity.…”

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The importance of teacher social and emotional competence tot he development of prosocial classrooms: the role of teacher preparation

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The alarming statistic that 40% to 50% of new teachers leave the profession within five years makes pre-service training of teachers even more crucial to get right. Failing to address the mental health needs and holistic wellbeing of teachers and not providing them with the tools necessary to break the cycle of likely burnout cascade is incredulously negligent, and threatens to make educating our children unsustainable in the future. In this project, through a content analysis approach, I will draw upon a wide range of scholarly research literature to form both the guiding principles and core components of a course to promote and develop social and emotional competencies (SEC) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) in pre-service teachers. The course content and training I propose, however, needs to be not only an ongoing dialogue involving the education community, particularly teachers, but also administrators, families, students, parents, and wellness professionals, and should continue beyond the pre-service course; it should be ongoing, holistic, 'drip-fed' and employing a combination of strategies.

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“…Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), mostly with wait-list control groups, have found that workplace MBIs decrease perceived stress (Klatt, Buckworth, & Malarkey, 2009;Schenström, Rönnberg, & Bodlund, 2006;Shapiro, Astin, Bishop, & Cordova, 2005;Wolever et al, 2012), anxiety and depression (Pipe et al, 2009), and burnout (Cohen-Katz, Wiley, 2 Capuano, Baker, &Mackenzie, Poulin, & Seidman-Carlson, 2006;Shapiro et al, 2005); and improve life satisfaction (Mackenzie et al, 2006;Shapiro et al, 2005), mood and wellbeing (Pipe et al, 2009;Schenström et al, 2006), sleep quality (Klatt et al, 2009;Wolever et al, 2012), heart rate variability (Wolever et al, 2012), and self-compassion ).…”

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Mindfulness at work

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Mindfulness broadly describes an open and receptive awareness of current experience that involves the self-regulation of attention, keeping it focussed on the present moment in order to develop greater awareness and recognition of mental events. Research has shown that dispositional mindfulness is positively associated with measures of psychological well-being, including workrelated measures such as job satisfaction, work engagement, and work-family balance. Furthermore, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) delivered to employees have been found to decrease perceived stress, burnout, and depression, and to improve life satisfaction, mood, and sleep quality.The current project extends that body of research by investigating the effects of mindfulness on a range of workplace outcomes that have previously received little empirical investigation, including co-worker relationship quality, innovative behaviours, resistance to change, and engagement and thriving at work. The current research also proposed and investigated a number of mechanisms to explain the effects of mindfulness on these workplace outcomes. Specifically, the proposal drew on previous research suggesting that mindfulness leads to more adaptive functioning and greater selfregulation by increasing cognitive flexibility, positive reappraisal, and positive affect.An initial cross-sectional study of 184 office workers found that dispositional mindfulness was associated with all five workplace outcomes, and that the association with each was fully mediated by one or more of the three proposed mechanisms. Specifically, mindfulness was associated with co-worker relationship quality and thriving at work via positive reappraisal and positive affect, whereas it was associated with innovative behaviours and less resistance to change via cognitive flexibility alone. On the other hand, cognitive flexibility, positive reappraisal, and positive affect all mediated the association between mindfulness and work engagement.A follow-up study found that a 4-week workplace MBI delivered to 131 employees, including office workers, school teachers, cleaners, and senior executives, improved self-reports of mindfulness, positive reappraisal, and negative affect. An additional novel finding was that the MBI reduced dispositional resistance to change. The study also found an unexpected decrease in innovative behaviours following the intervention, but this result may have been an artefact of the measure that was used. No significant pre-post changes were found in the other measures.The current project also investigated the mechanisms of change during the workplace MBI by looking at the correlations between changes in different measures, and by analysing weekly changes during the intervention. Results indicated that decreases in resistance to change correlated with increases in mindfulness, suggesting that mindfulness may have mediated that improvement.iii In contrast, improvements in reappraisal and reductions in negative affect and innovative behaviours were not correla...

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Nurse Leader Mindfulness Meditation Program for Stress Management

Abstract: Results support preliminary effectiveness of a 4-week MMC in reducing self-reported stress symptoms among nursing leaders.

Cited by 186 publications

References 19 publications

Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care

Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care

The importance of teacher social and emotional competence tot he development of prosocial classrooms: the role of teacher preparation

Mindfulness at work

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