It Undermines Physical and Mental Health;Â Contributes to Anxiety and Depression; Increases Burnout;Â Impacts Work Life and Family Life.
Stress is a major contributing factor to:
It Fosters Health and Wellness;Â Supports Emotional Resilience and Balance;Â Benefits Work, Family and Community.
Mindfulness can help you:
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The essentials in three One-Hour classes.  Developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University, UK) for those not ready to commit to an eight week course. Introducing Mindfulness is evidence based and an effective introduction for people with no prior meditation experience. Learn how mindfulness can support you in everyday life.Â
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The essentials in three One-Hour classes.  Developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University, UK) for those not ready to commit to an eight week course. Introducing Mindfulness is evidence based and an effective introduction for people with no prior meditation experience. Learn how mindfulness can support you in everyday life.Â
The definitive eight-week course developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 to support patients who weren’t getting full benefit from standard medical treatment. MBSR is an intensive introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful living. Now offered at more than 750 medical centers world-wide.Â
This is a workplace wellness study has a unique design. The subjects were elementary school teachers who were instructed in focused attention on the breath and who subsequently led their students in daily meditation as well as meditating at home.
Studies continue to support the use of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for breast cancer patients. I am always interested in the variations of Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) in research. In this review I found three surprising errors in the descriptions of variations on MBSR in the tabular presentation of the details of the RCTs included in this review (I presume this occurred in translation into English). I retrieved the three RCTs referenced and I
June 2024 study demonstrates theoretical similarities between Authentic Leadership and Mindfulness. This study provides a replicable program to enhance the management skills of head nurses and stresses their importance as the link between nursing administration and staff and the source of tomorrow’s nurse leaders.
A mixed Quantitative and Qualitative review supports the benefits of Mindfulness Based Interventions for people with many types of cancer throughout the course of the illness and brings the subjects actual experience of MBIs into the formal research discussion.
Here is another small study which supports the benefits of Mindfulness Interventions to support nurses’ well-being and address sleep disturbance, which the study reports is common in Intensive Care Unit Nurses. The study design is particularly interesting because it compares a live Mindfulness Intervention consisting of four one-hour weekly sessions with home practice to a control consisting of watching four Mindfulness videos. Improvement in self-reported sleep disturbance was reported by both groups, with greater benefit
Well, not exactly. More like a planning guide for introducing Mindfulness Based Interventions in a hospital. This 2024 qualitative review of 18 studies synthesized the factors affecting implementation in hospital settings. The study identified three overall themes important for successful implementation. Reading this study reminded me of my experiences as a new graduate RN. I was employed in a rural hospital in the Catskill region of New York State. I was on a committee which
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