Date of this Version

7-27-2024

Document Type

DNP Project

Abstract

Abstract

Burnout is common in mental healthcare nurses because of work-related stress, and thus constitutes major health concerns. Mental health nursing is demanding as well as stressful, which could impact the work performances, and the well-being of the nurses working in mental healthcare settings, thus rendering mental healthcare nurses susceptible to burnout. When mental healthcare nurses deal with acutely psychotic or behavioral health patients, nurses need to be focused, and be ready to make prompt and accurate decisions that will guide the nurses to provide timely, effective, efficient, and cost-effective care for the patients. However, literatures indicate that mental healthcare nurses have limited knowledge on the awareness of the burnout and other work-related stressors. This quality improvement project aims to assess the impact of early identification of the manifestations of burnout in mental healthcare nurses, after a 3-week educational intervention and wellness program to mitigate burnout and work overload. The educational and the wellness program will help nurses improve positive work engagement, enhance job satisfaction, productivity, staff retention, reduce medical errors, promote effective, efficient, and timely health care services to the patients, with subsequent optimal health outcomes. This project is a cross-sectional design that utilized pretest posttest surveys online. Participants were providers recruited via secured email from a hospital in Miami, Florida. Data was collected through pretest and posttest via SurveyMonkey. The pretest and posttest surveys were the same and addressed the PICO questions for the project. Twenty-five participants completed the Pretest, but twenty-three participants completed the Posttest after the educational intervention and Wellness training program. Data collected was analyzed via descriptive statistics and a paired t- test.

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