Background: Nurse burnout is a widespread problem affecting nurses' physical and mental health and patients' satisfaction. Nurses in intensive care units designated for patients with COVID-19 during the pandemic reported experiencing higher levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and stress and exhaustion and lower levels of personal accomplishment. The current literature does not have a solution to combat burnout.
Objective: To test the effectiveness of a mindfulness bundle toolkit on burnout for nurses caring for patients with COVID-19.
Methods: A quantitative quasi-experimental design was used. Participants were 52 frontline registered nurses caring for patients with COVID-19. A mindfulness bundle toolkit was provided with the goal of decreasing burnout in a 6-week period. Data were collected before intervention, immediately after intervention, and 6 weeks after intervention using the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel, the Nursing Work Index-Revised, and the Stress/Arousal Adjective Checklist. Results The analysis indicated a statistically significant effect from the mindfulness bundle toolkit in 3 areas pertaining to burnout: emotional exhaustion (Wilks Λ = .66; F1,41 = 19.02; P = .001; η2 = .31), depersonalization (Wilks Λ = .70; F1,41 = 7.93; P = .007; η2 = .16), and stress (Wilks Λ = .81; F1,41 = 8.81; P = .005; η2 = .17).
Conclusions: The results suggest that the use of a 6-week mindfulness bundle toolkit is an effective intervention to mitigate emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and stress associated with burnout in critical care nurses caring for patients with COVID-19.
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