Title : Mindfulness and acceptance therapies to reduce nurse burnout
Abstract:
Nursing remains the number one most trusted profession internationally, but at what cost Nurses are systemically overworked by an overburdened healthcare system that struggles to maintain healthy populations despite increasing social and environmental stressors, resulting in a continued reduction in workforce, further complicating and already difficult situation. Nursing burnout is a pervasive occupational phenomenon characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, affecting nearly half of the global healthcare workforce. Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) have emerged as promising individual-level strategies to mitigate burnout among nurses. These holistically focused interventions have been shown reduce burnout among nurses, with evidence showing reductions in emotional exhaustion, psychological stress, and depersonalization, which are core components of burnout syndrome. Both traditional in-person and digital delivery formats demonstrate effectiveness, making these interventions highly accessible for busy nursing professionals. Understanding simple practices that can be easily adapted to daily routines have the potential to improve nursing practice, outlook, and reduce burnout among nursing professionals. This presentation reviews recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses examining MBIs and ACT interventions for nursing burnout, providing simple daily practices that can improve nursing exhaustion and reduce experienced burnout.
