Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart
Conditions
Brief summary
This Intervention study anticipates that 100 nurses, patient care technicians and unit secretaries in the acute care setting at four Methodist Health System facilities will provide surveys to participants who had interventions
Detailed description
Once the intervention has been used, the participants will complete a survey in order to determine if stress levels are decreasing. Initial data collection will be over the course of two months ( April 1, 2022 through June 1, 2022) and participation will vary based upon staffing and the set criteria for Crisis Intervention Cart deployment.
Interventions
COMBINATION_PRODUCTAromatherapy patches
This study anticipates that Staff-reported stress levels will decrease when nurses use strategies from the Crisis Intervention Cart while at work.
Sponsors
Methodist Health System
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
As noted in the background, resiliency-building activities appear to have a positive relationship with managing stress in the workplace. Additionally, offering a variety of strategies is anticipated to increase the sample size and encourage continued use of the strategies over time.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Part of MHS (i.e., MCMC, MMMC, MRMC, MDMC, MLMC, MSMC) * The hospital has at least one Crisis Intervention Cart study clinical site investigator on-staff * Hold license as a Registered Nurse OR * Hold position as a patient care technician or unit secretary * Must be able to read English * Provide direct patient care or hold a unit-based leadership position (i.e., Nursing Clinical Coordinator, Nurse Manager, Clinical Team Lead) * Full-time, part-time, or PRN employee
Exclusion criteria
* Hospitals and clinical units will be excluded if they are outside MHS * Participants will be excluded if they at Director-level or above
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Crisis Intervention Cart | Period of 2 months | The Effect of Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions on reducing stress experienced during a shift using surveys. A 10-point Likert scale will be used with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest on the scale with 10 having highest level of self-perceived stress. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Type of intervention/strategy used | Period of 2 months | The Effect of Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions on reducing stress experienced during a shift using surveys. A 10-point Likert scale will be used with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest on the scale with 10 having the highest level of self-perceived stress. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed