Every Breath You Take: Incorporating a Yoga and Mindfulness Intervention into a New Nurse Residency Program

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  • March 2, 2021
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  • Presler, Cammie Moore
    • School of Nursing
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  • New Nurse Residency Programs (NNRPs) were created because it is widely acknowledged that many newly licensed registered nurses (NLRNs) leave their first position within the first 1-2 years of employment (NSI, 2019; Blegan, 2017) and stress is often cited as one of the main reasons (Austin, Saylor, & Finley, 2017). This is significantly costly to individual hospitals and the national healthcare system (Trepanier, Early, Ulrich, & Cherry, 2012). This project aimed to work with the NNRP by adding information to help mitigate the stress NLRNs feel by giving them tools to deal with it. Using the theoretical underpinnings of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory promoting self-efficacy and Kirkpatrick’s Model for evaluation, a 20-minute intervention was placed at the beginning of an online NNRP at the first of three monthly sessions of a four hour NNRP in which 42 new graduate nurses were enrolled. Each session included didactic information on the effects of stress, a breathing exercise, and all-level yoga poses. The NLRNs were given handouts to encourage self-efficacy for practicing self-care at home. Quantitative data was obtained with pre- and post-stress thermometers completed online immediately post intervention. Five survey questions were embedded in the NNRP completion survey and evaluated by the researchers for qualitative data. Paired t tests showed statistically significant results for decreasing stress in the NLRNs immediately following each of the 3 interventions. Additionally, the follow up surveys showed that the NLRNs understood that mitigation of stress was necessary. They expressed numerous ways in which they practice self-care, including breathing exercises and yoga. Using the breath to decrease stress and practice mindfulness was reported more often than any other intervention. This project showed that an online Yoga and Mindfulness intervention significantly improved the stress levels of the NLRNs post intervention and that they were able to achieve self-efficacy by using this information to mitigate stress both at work and at home. This may be applicable to all healthcare providers as they historically experience stress.
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  • Zomorodi, Meg
  • D'Auria, Jennifer
  • Strubin, Judith
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  • Doctor of Nursing Practice
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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  • 2020
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