Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

Methodist Health System443 enrolled

Overview

This Intervention study anticipates that 100 nurses, patient care technicians and unit secretaries in the acute care setting at four Methodist Health System facilities will provide surveys to participants who had interventions

Once the intervention has been used, the participants will complete a survey in order to determine if stress levels are decreasing. Initial data collection will be over the course of two months ( April 1, 2022 through June 1, 2022) and participation will vary based upon staffing and the set criteria for Crisis Intervention Cart deployment.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

443

Conditions

Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

Interventions

Aromatherapy patchesCOMBINATION_PRODUCT

This study anticipates that Staff-reported stress levels will decrease when nurses use strategies from the Crisis Intervention Cart while at work.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 75 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Part of MHS (i.e., MCMC, MMMC, MRMC, MDMC, MLMC, MSMC) * The hospital has at least one Crisis Intervention Cart study clinical site investigator on-staff * Hold license as a Registered Nurse OR * Hold position as a patient care technician or unit secretary * Must be able to read English * Provide direct patient care or hold a unit-based leadership position (i.e., Nursing Clinical Coordinator, Nurse Manager, Clinical Team Lead) * Full-time, part-time, or PRN employee Exclusion Criteria: * Hospitals and clinical units will be excluded if they are outside MHS * Participants will be excluded if they at Director-level or above

Locations (1)

Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Dallas, Texas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Crisis Intervention Cart

The Effect of Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions on reducing stress experienced during a shift using surveys. A 10-point Likert scale will be used with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest on the scale with 10 having highest level of self-perceived stress.

Time frame: Period of 2 months

Secondary Outcomes

Type of intervention/strategy used

Time frame: Period of 2 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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