Quality healthcare provision focuses on offering interventions that aim to enhance patient outcomes. A core aspect of quality care is patient safety. However, challenges like nurse burnout affect the quality of healthcare and risk patient safety. Burnout lowers the quality of care because of limited concentration by nurses and other healthcare providers, especially in the emergency department or room. Healthcare organizations and their management, including nurse leaders, should develop effective interventions to address burnout. Evidence-based practice (EBP) interventions like meditation and mindfulness breathing can help nurses reduce burnout and attain resiliency despite having increased workload (Tappen et al., 2022). The purpose of this presentation is to disseminate information concerning the implementation of the proposed EBP intervention to reduce and tackle burnout as a core nursing issue in the organization using meditation and mindfulness breathing.
The presentation tackles core areas of the EBP that include developing a PICOT statement, evaluating the overall organizational culture and readiness to implement the suggested project, explores the problem and its effects on quality of care and patient safety. The presentation also focuses on existing literature to support the proposed solution and change model or framework that providers and organizations can use to implement the transformation. The presentation details different aspects of the implementation plan and the evaluation plan based on expected outcomes and changes that can occur in the organization.
Nurses and other healthcare providers leverage EBP interventions to improve care through resource optimization in different care settings. According to Tappen (2022), EBP aims at optimizing provider and team behavior to embrace and adopt changes in patient care to attain quality care. EBP also reduces risks and improve aspects of care provision as well as encouraging providers and organizations to optimally use available resources. The proposed project on meditation and mindfulness breathing education aims at reducing the rates of nurse burnout due to the critical nature of the emergency department.
In nurses working in the emergency department (ED) with increased burnout rates (P) does the use of meditation and mindfulness breathing education (I) compared to no intervention or usual practice (C), reduce nurse burnout rates by 50% (O) within six months (T)?
A culture that supports change is essential for any organization and comprises values, mission, and vision based on effective engagement of employees. The evaluation of an organization’s readiness is essential to align with the proposed EBP project implementation. Using new approaches to implement change is critical for any entity, especially in ED. Readiness implies focusing on interventions that improve patient safety. Based on the organizational capacity assessment tool (OCAT) developed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the organization is ready for implementation of the proposed EBP due to its mission and vision that are patient-centered and focused on quality care delivery (Tappen, 2022). The ED nurses have sufficient skills and expertise to implement the intervention and are ready for changes based on the model used. The unit also embraces teamwork and information flow while also having healthcare processes and engaging stakeholders to attain expected outcomes. The department and the organization have integrated effective health IT components like telehealth and artificial intelligence to health monitor patients presenting in the unit. The use of health IT will also be integral in the overall provision of the proposed intervention to reduce burnout by improving coping and resilient strategies of nurses.
Burnout among nurses in ED is a patient safety issue because of the adverse effects associated with the problem. The increased use of ED by patients who seek care creates more workload for nurses leading to burnout that leads to nurse shortage due to turnover, fatigue, and stress. As such, nurses need interventions that will help them cope with the rise in care demand, especially due to diverse needs and increased prevalence of chronic conditions. Existing evidence suggests that meditation and mindfulness breathing education can lower nurses’ susceptibility to burnout in the ED (Ameli et al., 2021). Again, the intervention improves their resilience and perspective through better reflection to integr
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