Abstract
Background and Review of Literature: Burnout syndrome has been a struggle for critical care nurses for decades. Burnout syndrome causes significant mental stress, job dissatisfaction, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. Resiliency is the process of returning back to a normal state of functioning after an adverse or stressful event occurs. Higher levels of resiliency have been found to combat burnout syndrome and reduce critical care nurses levels of anxiety, depression, stress, and job dissatisfaction.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop an evidence-based education module that will teach critical care nurses resiliency skills, increase implementation of resilience interventions by the critical care nurse, and increase awareness of burnout syndrome enhancing their ability to cope with adverse events in the critical care setting.
Methods: This quality improvement project collected quantitative data in a 423 bed Midwest acute care facility. The inclusion criteria included core staff RN of a cardiac care unit and a progressive care unit and nurses licensed as a registered nurse. Nurses were excluded if they were not licensed as an RN, they floated to other units and were not core unit staff, and staff that were not bedside nursing staff were excluded.
Implementation Plan/Procedure: A twenty minute educational slide show module covering resilience, resilience characteristics, burnout syndrome, burnout syndrome characteristics, resiliency interventions, the Neumann Systems Model, and interventions available to critical care nurses at a Midwest acute care hospital was compiled and emailed to the core staff on both nursing units with four pre-educational surveys. Nurses were to fill out the surveys using a four digit pin they created then complete the education. They had day 1-15 to complete the surveys and education. On day 45 post-education surveys were sent to the core staff nurses for the two units again and nurses had from day 45-60 to complete the post-education surveys using the same pin numbers in the surveys as they did with the pre-education surveys. 

Implications/Conclusion: The resilience education improved the critical care nurses knowledge of resilience and burnout syndrome and the Resilience Education in Critical Care Nursing: Outcome Measurement Tool was statistically significant for increasing the participants knowledge. This means the nurses retained the knowledge they learned over the thirty days. The surveys that measured the nurses resilience scores and the surveys measuring the implementation of resilience interventions were not statistically significant. If this quality improvement project were to be completed again more time and data collection points should be used with a larger sample size to more accurately measure the implementation of resilience interventions and the resilience scores of the nurses.
Sigma Membership
Theta Tau
Lead Author Affiliation
Nebraska Methodist College, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Type
DNP Capstone Project
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Quality Improvement
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Burnout Syndrome, Critical Care Nursing, Resilience, Resilience Education, Neuman Systems Model, Resilience Interventions
Advisor
Krumbach, Jillian
Degree
DNP
Degree Grantor
Nebraska Methodist College
Degree Year
2019
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Jayne, "Resilience: An essential skill in critical care nursingÂ" (2024). Group: Nebraska Methodist College. 73.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/group_nmc/73
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Faculty Approved: Degree-based Submission
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Self-submission
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