NCT03645512

Resilience Intervention for Critical Care Nurses

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Resilience Intervention for Critical Care Nurses

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: AdventHealth · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Corporate Athlete® Resilience (CAR) Training Program is a 1-day training program that uses a holistic approach that focuses on moving between stress and strategic recovery to help build resilience and enable higher performance. The purpose of this RCT is to determine whether the CAR Training Program has significant impact on nurses' resilience and stress mindset in their personal lives and their working environment. Knowledge from this study can be applied to interventions in the future to improve resilience behavior.

Detailed description

The ongoing nursing shortage in the U.S health care system is a multifaceted issue. One factor leading to the nursing shortage is high turnover, particularly among critical care nurses due to their experiences with stressful work environments, ethical dilemmas, and high rates of patient morbidity and mortality. There is also a high prevalence of psychological disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among critical care nurses. Consequences of turnover and low nurse staffing include lower quality of care, lower patient satisfaction, increased medical errors, increased rates of health care associated infections, and higher 30-day mortality rates. Resilience is defined as "the ability to adapt to life's ever-changing landscape and recover quickly from the stressors and potential stressors". It is a learned psychological characteristic that can be used to bounce back after disruption and successfully adapt to stressful work experiences in a positive manner.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Corporate Athlete Resilience (CAR) Training Program	A 1-day training program developed by the J\&J Human Performance Institute (HPI), which uses a holistic approach that focuses on moving between stress and strategic recovery to help build resilience and enable higher performance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-26
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2018-08-24
• Last updated: 2020-02-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States