Resilience Insight Self Compassion and Empowerment (RISE) Pilot
Condition: Stress
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      The purpose of this pilot study is to determine whether the combination of the Corporate
      Athlete® Resilience (CAR) Training Program and follow-up psychoeducational group sessions has
      significant impact on nurses' resilience and stress mindset in their personal lives and their
      working environment. Knowledge from this study can be applied to interventions in the future
      to improve resilience behavior.
    

Detailed description: 
      The ongoing nursing shortage in the U.S health care system is a multifaceted issue. One
      factor leading to the nursing shortage is high turnover, particularly among critical care
      nurses due to their experiences with stressful work environments, ethical dilemmas, and high
      rates of patient morbidity and mortality. There is also a high prevalence of psychological
      disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among
      critical care nurses. Consequences of turnover and low nurse staffing include lower quality
      of care, lower patient satisfaction, increased medical errors, increased rates of health care
      associated infections, and higher 30-day mortality rates.

      Resilience is defined as "the ability to adapt to life's ever-changing landscape and recover
      quickly from the stressors and potential stressors". It is a learned psychological
      characteristic that can be used to bounce back after disruption and successfully adapt to
      stressful work experiences in a positive manner.

      The Corporate Athlete® Resilience (CAR) Training Program is a 1-day training program that
      uses a holistic approach that focuses on moving between stress and strategic recovery to help
      build resilience and enable higher performance.
    

Intervention name(s): CAR Training and Psychoeducational Sessions
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): Participation in the CAR Training Program, a 1-day training program developed by the J&J Human Performance Institute (HPI). The CAR Training Program uses a holistic approach that focuses on moving between stress and strategic recovery to help build resilience and enable higher performance.
Participants will attend eight weekly follow-up psychoeducational group sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health counselor that will meet for 90 minutes. The themes of these sessions will be RISE - Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment. Due to limited time and flexibility in sessions, participants will practice skills through optional homework activities to facilitate learning between sessions.
Intervention model: Single Group Assignment
Intervention model description: This is a secondary study to the primary study titled "A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Resilience Intervention for Critical Care Nurses" (Florida Hospital IRBNet #1234568). In the primary study, participants will be randomized into the intervention group or wait-list control group. However, in this secondary study, all participants will attend the 1-day CAR Training Program and the follow-up psychoeducational group sessions.
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Treatment
Keywords: Critical Care Nurse; Resilience; Stress Mindset