Lab Week 6: Mindfulness

Lab Week 6: Mindfulness Readings: Does mindfulness decrease stress and foster empathy among nursing students, Mindfulness based stress reduction, the effectiveness of mindful meditation for nurses and nursing students Learning Objectives: • Discuss mindfulness definition, benefits, attitudes, and practices • • • Participate in guided mindful practice Engage in group and self reflections on practice Identify resources to help continue mindfulness education and practice Notes on Article (beddoe article) • participants reported using meditation in daily life and experiencing greater well-being and improved coping skills. Findings suggest that being mindful may also decrease tendencies to take on others’ negative emotions • Studies suggest that high stress and anxiety impede concentration, memory, no problem-solving ability, which, in turn, adversely affect academic performance and learning • • Stress may also diminish communication interpersonal effectiveness and empathy Empathy in health care is the capacity to understand and respond to clients emotions and their experience of illness • • Empathetic nurses are more likely to act altruistically, for social good, without aggression Nurses with greater empathetic concern and communicative responsiveness were less prone to burnout, less likely to depersonalize patients, and less likely to report reduced personal accomplishment • Mindfulness suggests suspending judgement, being present in the here and now, attending it and listening to whatever arises, and remaining focused an relaxed. Mindfulness has the ability to transform one’s perception and interpretation of the outer world • when students use mindfulness to quiet their minds, bodies, and emotions, and observe what is present, they may be better able to reach out to distressed clients and respond with concern Notes on Article (Van der Reit article) • mindfulness meditation has a positive impact on nurses’ and nursing students’ stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, sense of well-being, and empathy Mindfulness refers to engagement in or curiosity about the present moment, which encourages an • attitude of non-judgemental openness and acceptance, so as to cultivate equanimity and stillness Physiological changes involve reduction in cortisol levels, improved immune response, and reduced blood • pressure Psychological benefits include reduced anxiety, stress, depression, improved mood regulation, and • sense of well-being Notes on Article (Smith article) • basically the same thing, mindfulness has several benefits including decreased stress, burnout, and anxiety; increased empathy, focus and mood - empathy has -burnout ↳ : a big too much disconnected impact or on too little healthcare compassion ? Class Notes · · science : Pause - Breathe - Notice behind mindfulness introduction to mindfulness "mindfulness particular is awareness way : purpose on helps ↳ awareness - cultivated , , in by paying the present moment us focus on attitudes of Mindfulness attention things in a sustained and /1 , non-judgmentally and that matter : - ① Non-judging ② Patience ⑧ and let go of judgements be patient with yourself and the process : mind Beginners ④ Trust ⑧ ⑥ ① : notice : trust : , remain open and curious in ourselves Non-striving "being" rather than "doing" Acceptance accept the present moment as : : Letting Go : notice , and then let go e mindful · emotions sensations attachments of Formal Mindfulness Practices of Awareness -me ↓ it is listening sitting practice · mindful movement · mindful walking · thoughts n · · body scan forgiveness , compassion stress is bad mindfulness , is good kindness , practices self- Benefits of Mindfulness : - · decreases stress hormones decreases · BP + pain improves mental health develops concentration and attention · · develops executive · · develops emotional balance and compassionate Anterior function Cingulate - Cortex Amygdala interoceptive - pro-social behavior , action - ↳ increases in size and Insula , emotional density awareness regulation empathy , u