Effect of contemplating patient care spiritual flow principles and mindfulness on trauma center nurses' wellbeing: a pilot trial.

ABSTRACT: Trauma nurses commonly encounter stress and burnout and have increased negative affect states and decreased positive affect traits. This study investigated whether trauma center nurses would have improvements in wellbeing scores after reading and contemplating Spiritual Flow: Pathways to Proficient Patient Care and Nurse & Physician Wellbeing (Spiritual Flow). Trauma center surgical intensive care unit nurses completed a baseline and follow-up survey before and after reading and contemplating Spiritual Flow, which provides insights into spirituality and mindfulness. The survey contained four positive affect (PA) items, each rated 1-very little to 5-extremely, that were summed to create a PA score (PAS). The seven negative affect (NA) survey items were similarly rated a

SUBMITTER: Dunham CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8784743 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature