Mayo Clinic, Arizona

Health Team Resilience Mayo Clinic, AZ

Mayo Clinic, Arizona – published research study –nurses in oncology practiced HeartMath techniques and experienced improved health and reduced stress. The results after 7 months were enviable.

Compelling Reasons for the Intervention:

Documented high stress levels of health care workers
Impact that stress has on individual health status
Stress-related mistakes resulting in adverse patient outcomes

Key Results

Oncology Staff who responded “often to always” decreased by these percentages:

Fatigue 85%, Anxiety 86%, Depression 100%
Inadequate Sleep 83%, Headaches 81%
Rapid Heartbeats 100%

Combined Results with other initiatives:

Turnover on the oncology unit was 13.12% pre-intervention and 9.8% at the 7-month timeframe.
Incremental overtime on the oncology unit dropped from 1.19 to 0.74 during the same time period.

The tools help me on the spot in crisis or in unexpected situations where I need to stay un–rattled.
RN, Oncology

Using HeartMath, I have been able to manage my stress better. Moments when I usually feel my heart rate elevate, my face flush and my nerves stand on end have now changed to moments where I feel more in control, moments where I feel I can make a clear decision and feel good about it.
RN, Oncology

Decreased frequency of migraines, decreased low back pain, decreased shoulder tension.
RN, Oncology

Other Case Studies

Stress Reduction Information Technology

Information Technology Division of a Large Healthcare Organization

Recognizing the effects stress was having on the health of its employees, the IT Division provided Inner Balance devices to help staff learn meaningful stress reduction practices with the hope of decreasing negative long-term effects of stress in the workplace. This effort evolved into a pilot project to see if improvements were significant enough to purchase devices for the entire organization.

Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Home Health and Hospice Continuum

Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s Home Health and Hospice Continuum worked with HeartMath to design a study that reduced staff stress, increased staff resilience and improved member satisfaction.

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