Book Description
"Background: Strengthening attention-regulation efficiency of nurse graduates is important to the quality and safety of nursing practice in increasingly complex and cognitively distracting workplace environments (Burger & Lockhart, 2017). Academic and clinical stressors are experienced by most nursing students enrolled in a nursing program (Yuksel & Yilmaz, 2020). Local problem: Heavy academic workloads, stressors from clinical placements such as complex patient care and lack of effective coping strategies for undergraduate nursing students. Methods: The participant population for this project included 8 undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a traditional baccalaureate program at a Southern Louisiana University. (n=8). Participation in the project was voluntary. Intervention: The purpose of this evidence-based practice project was to evaluate the stress perception of undergraduate nursing students utilizing mindfulness meditation. This would be done through an app from the participants' smartphone device 5 days per week for 8 weeks. Results: The evaluation of the project's outcomes after completion of the mindfulness meditation program revealed that there was a 43% decrease in mean scores from pre- to post-intervention. Evaluation of this EBP project was determined by setting a benchmark to see a 25% decrease in mean scores of participants' perceived stress. Conclusions: Given the connection between nurses' attention regulation capacity and safe patient care, the effectiveness of mindfulness techniques has proven to be a reliable tool when it comes to managing the stress perception of nursing students. Utilization of stress management techniques in nursing education could increase student performance and decrease attrition rates. Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, Stress, Nursing, Nursing Student, Burnout " -- Abstract