Nursing students face many stressors throughout their nursing education. These stressors include course assignments, exams, and clinical experiences. At graduation, nursing students face additional stressors due to the requirement of passing the national exam to become licensed as well as finding and starting a job as a graduate nurse. This stress can impact their academic performance, mental health, and the care they deliver to patients. Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the present moment that can help reduce stress. Nursing students should learn coping skills that they can also use as they transition to practice. This quality improvement project aims to evaluate the implementation of an evidence-based mindfulness-based intervention program to reduce stress in an Undergraduate Nursing Program. Participants will rate their satisfaction with the program, state whether they used exercises for home practice, prefer an in-person or online program, and whether or not the program reduced their stress. Four mindfulness sessions will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube where participants will be able to watch. Once participants have completed the four sessions, they will complete a demographics survey and program evaluation. A foreseeable barrier is participant time and availability. Nursing students are historically busy and may feel they do not have the time to participate in mindfulness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:es-conf-1104 |
| Date | 23 April 2023 |
| Creators | Meade, Chloe |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Epsilon Sigma at-Large Research Conference |
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