Enhancing Resilience and Well-Being Among Nurse Leaders: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness and Narrative
Minjin Kim1, Rebecca Owens, Sharon Tucker
1Assistant Professor (Dr Kim), College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Chief Nursing Officer (Dr Owens), New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY; Dean and Professor (Dr Tucker), College of Nursing, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Vice President Nursing and Patient Services (Dr Nolan), NYU Langone Health Brooklyn, New York, NY; Associate Professor (Dr Lambert), College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Post Doctoral Candidate (Dr Abikou), College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Director, Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing (Dr Fitzpatrick), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Objective:
Evaluate the short-term effectiveness of interventions to address nurse leader resilience and well-being.
Background:
Nurse leaders face unique stressors in their role. Evidence-based, feasible interventions are urgently needed.
Methods:
The study included 157 US nurse leaders, randomly assigned to 3 intervention groups (mindfulness, narrative, combined). Well-being and resilience were measured at baseline (T0), 1 week (T1), and 2 weeks (T2).
Results:
Well-being scores showed significant improvement over time across all groups. Resilience scores increased from baseline to first follow-up but declined by the second follow-up.
Conclusion:
Low-resource interventions demonstrated short-term signals of effectiveness for improving nurse leaders' well-being over 2 weeks; resilience findings were mixed and not sustained by week 2. A longer follow-up is warranted before broad organizational adoption.
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