• Chelsie Monroe, Figaro Loresto, Sara Horton-Deutsch, Cathryn Kleiner, Kathryn Eron, Robert Varney, and Stephanie Grimm.
• Denver Health Hospital, 777 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80206, United States of America; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 13120 E. 19th Ave. 3rd Floor - Room 3255, Aurora, CO 80045, United States of America. Electronic address: Chelsie.Monroe@cuanschutz.edu.
• Arch Psychiatr Nurs. 2021 Apr 1; 35 (2): 189-194.

BackgroundBurnout rates among nurses have detrimental impact on job satisfaction, teamwork, and patient care. This costs millions of dollars in the healthcare system and challenges nurse leaders to address in order to keep up with the healthcare demands. Furthermore, burnout is especially relevant in our current healthcare climate, as frontline nurses have increased workload and multiple psychosocial stressors during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic (Sultana, Sharma, Hossain, Bhattacharya, & Purohit, 2019). Literature also suggests that mindful self-care practices need to be reinforced in order to impact burnout long term (Chamorro-Premuzic & Lusk, 2017). Project7 Mindfulness Pledge© is an accessible and voluntary mindfulness tool that nurses can utilize in their individual practice to reduce burnout and does not require significant time commitment.ObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of intentional self-care practices on nurse burnout and workplace environment by measuring job satisfaction and teamwork among nurses.MethodsComparisons between inpatient units on data from the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) with the Practice Environment Scale (PES), specifically on job enjoyment and teamwork, were done utilizing ANOVA.ResultsResults show that nurses in an inpatient unit that implemented Project7 has significantly higher job satisfaction as compared to units that did not implement Project7.ConclusionsThis suggests that this tool provides an effective and accessible mindfulness framework managers and directors can utilize to improve job satisfaction, teamwork, and thereby reduce burnout to create healthier work environments.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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