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Health & Wellbeing Of The Nurse, Erin E. Bichler, Regina Michler

Nursing Research & Professional Development Conference

Background and/or Rationale:

Central Shared Governance focused on the strategic goal of promoting nurse health and well-being. A survey found interrupted or skipped meal breaks were common on inpatient units. We reviewed the literature and found that the majority of nurses experience workplace stress and that adequate breaks and break areas can decrease stress. Central Shared Governance identified this common occurrence as being misaligned with our nurse health and well-being goals.

Aim or Purpose:

We decided to promote and support uninterrupted, restorative breaks and provide high quality break areas to reduce stress based on the evidence we found.

Implementation Plan: …

Adding An Admission Nurse To Help Alleviate Staff's Workload Stress, Zharmaine Zafra

Nursing Research & Professional Development Conference

Background: Getting a lot of admissions during shift change challenges and stresses nurses because they feel they cannot not give adequate care to patients.

Local Problem: Clinical nurses on a surgical unit at a large, urban, Level 1 trauma center, expressed concern about heavy workload during admissions. Heavy workload during admission affects the stress level of the staff which could negatively impact the quality of care provided to all the patients.

Method: To reduce the workload stress of the nurses, the unit implemented an admission nurse role. Prior to implementation, a unit RN surveyed the nurses about how an admissions …