Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

Methodist Health System

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

Treatments: Combination Product: Aromatherapy patches

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05944120

006.NUR.2022.A

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 443 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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443 participants in 1 patient group

Crisis Intervention Cart

Experimental group

Description:

To determine if a Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions does reduce stress experienced during a shift.

Treatment:

Combination Product: Aromatherapy patches