Date of Award

Summer 8-4-2025

Document Type

Scholarly Project

Degree Name

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

First Advisor

Theresa Pape

Second Advisor

Tara Haskell

Abstract

Practice Problem: Post-surgical critical care nurses face a variety of stressful events when providing patient care. And there is a strong relationship between job stress, provision of patient care, patient satisfaction, and the overall well-being of the organization.

PICOT Question: For post-surgical critical nurses who are part of a stressful event (P), do evidence-based stress management strategies (I) compared to the current practice (C), reduce stress (O) within 8 weeks (T)?

Evidence: The evidence that guided this project change is based on John Hopkins’ nursing evidence-based practice model, and Lewin’s Change theory.

Intervention: The Code Lavender intervention assisted post-surgical critical care nurses in dealing with their stress levels.

Outcome: Statistical evidence suggests that the measurement basis of the scales and subscales of the new POQA-R4 framework is psychometrically sound, but the result was that there was no significant difference in the nurses’ stress levels post-intervention of the Code Lavender. However, clinical significance showed a positive change in nurses’ health symptoms (physical tension, aches and pain, stomach upset, rapid heartbeats, and headaches). Within 8-weeks, an expected meaningful difference in nurses’ stress levels showed that the implementation of Code Lavender on professional nurses.

Conclusion: This evidence-based project was based on the Johns Hopkins EBP model and Lewin’s change theory after a thorough literature search. Although there was no significant decrease in nurses’ stress level with the usage of the Code Lavender process, there was clinical significance.

Comments

Scholarly project submitted to the University of St. Augustin for Health Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice

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