Enhancing Resilience and Well-Being Among Nurse Leaders: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness and Narrative Interventions.

OBJECTIVE

Evaluate the short-term effectiveness of interventions to address nurse leader resilience and well-being.

BACKGROUND

Nurse leaders face unique stressors in their role. Evidence-based, feasible interventions are urgently needed.

METHODS

The study included 157 US nurse leaders, randomly assigned to 3 intervention groups (mindfulness, narrative, combined). Well-being and resilience were measured at baseline (T0), 1 week (T1), and 2 weeks (T2).

RESULTS

Well-being scores showed significant improvement over time across all groups. Resilience scores increased from baseline to first follow-up but declined by the second follow-up.

CONCLUSION

Low-resource interventions demonstrated short-term signals of effectiveness for improving nurse leaders' well-being over 2 weeks; resilience findings were mixed and not sustained by week 2. A longer follow-up is warranted before broad organizational adoption.