This textbook is an evidenced-based course for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals for improving resilience and reducing stress and burnout. This curriculum improves patient-centered care by providing training in compassion and attention. It is a structured skills-based manual complete with resources for full implementation and dissemination of this evidence-based course. This textbook addresses the gaps existing in other mindfulness-based interventions. It is a unique manual that can be followed in a linear fashion or can be used modularly to suit the needs of specific settings. The curriculum contains didactic content and specific examples of practices; hence, it is easily adaptable for use by groups and classes of various sizes and structure. The authors have conducted several research studies with findings to support its use to prevent and treat burnout. Results demonstrate the curriculum's feasibility and acceptability in healthcare professionals and students as well as efficacy in stress and burnout reduction with increases in dispositional mindfulness.

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Sarah Ellen Braun, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychology fellow completing her fellowship training at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Division of Neuro-Oncology. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University where she co-developed the intervention Mindfulness for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Professionals (MIHP). At VCU, she taught the course to more than 100 faculty, staff, residents, and students across disciplines. Much of Dr. Braun's research has focused on mindfulness training for healthcare professionals. She is the author of several peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, including a recent paper demonstrating the effectiveness of MIHP in reducing burnout, stress, and daily activity impairment. She received the 2019 Elizabeth Fries Scholarship in Cancer Prevention and Control, the 2018 Young Investigator Award for her research at the International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, and the 2017 Emerging Leader in Interprofessionalism Award at the Emswiller Interprofessional Symposium. Her research has been funded by the American Psychological Association.

Patricia Anne Kinser, PhD, WHNP-BC, RN, FAAN, is a tenured professor, nurse scientist, and nurse practitioner at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. Dr. Kinser's program of research is focused on two areas: first, she studies mindfulness interventions to enhance resilience-building in interdisciplinary healthcare professionals, with the long-term goal to improve patient care quality and safety; second, she explores biobehavioral mechanisms underlying depression and she develops and tests innovative non-pharmacologic symptom management strategies. Her interdisciplinary research studies have been funded by sources such as the National Institutes of Health, the American Nurses Foundation, and Sigma Theta Tau International. Dr. Kinser is a Governor-Appointee to the Virginia Board of Health, a practicing board-certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

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Foreword - Sharon Salzberg, Amy Weintraub, Michael Krasner, or Susan Bauer-Wu Part 1: Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: How to Use This Book: Teaching and Learning Mindfulness for NursesHealthcare ProfessionalsThis chapter serves as a guide for using this book and is geared toward students of a course using this as a textbook as well as those who will teach this manualized curriculum. This chapter reinforces that an important active ingredient of the curriculum is the development of one's personal mindfulness practice, including that of the instructor teaching the course. This chapter provides an overview of the layout of Part 2 in which chapters are organized by a) key concepts, b) suggested activities and practices for each session, c) tips for instructors, d) hand-outs and resources, and e) formal mindful movement and meditation practice. Supplemental material for this chapter: Direction on how to use curriculum materials, resources for the instructor's mindfulness practices, and how to create a safe space and adapt materials according to the audience. Recommendations will be provided about making the most of your setting by engaging transdisciplinary experts as instructors (e.g., leaders for meditation, yoga, and discussion).Chapter authors: Sarah Braun and Patricia Kinser Chapter 2: Evidence to Support Mindful Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Introduce and define relevant terms including mindfulness and compassion. Discuss the need in medicine and healthcare for these concepts and the trainings that cultivate them. Provide overview on the research to support the use of mindfulness by interdisciplinary healthcare professionals and students. It also includes research on this curriculum specifically, presenting quantitative and qualitative data. Spiritual dimension in the exploration of mindfulness as this is fundamental to the delivery of holistic careChapter authors: Sarah Braun and Patricia Kinser Chapter 3: CompassionThe nurses and Hhealthcare professional faces the extremes of human suffering without being taught how to handle this suffering. We forget the human element of the healthcare professional. This chapter will focus on the concept of compassion as a container in which all the skills / strategies / practices presented in this curriculum are held. Review of current resources and practices available for healthcare professionals facing suffering. existing good practice set against the challenges all healthcare professionals face when confronted with suffering, frailty and their own vulnerability and mortalityChapter authors: Sarah Braun and Christopher Guerry Chapter 4: Being Mindful in a Mindless WorldThis chapter will focus on key mindfulness concepts such as intention, attitude, and attention. It will acknowledge the often seemingly conflicting goals of professionalism and mindfulness, of practical living and emotional functioning to set the stage for delivering this curriculum to interdisciplinary healthcare professionals.Chapter authors: Jordan Quaglia , Sarah Braun, Patricia Kinser Part 2: The Curriculum Chapter 5: Module 1: Introduction to MindfulnessKey concepts: stress cycle, defining mindfulness, defining compassion, finding the contemplative practice that meets an individual's needs, goals of mindfulness and compassionate intentions (creating the 'pause'), research about mindfulness, developing a home practice Activities and practices: Stop/Breathe/BeHand-outs / Resources: Stop/Breathe/Be, list of research articles, Artfulness link, video links, meditation recordingFormal mindful movement and meditation practice: Invite a yoga teacher to lead a 45-minutes of gentle alignment-based yoga practice ending with a brief body scan, sequences provided as examples, 5-minute focused-attention breath meditation Supplemental material for this chapter/Tips for instructors: acknowledge paradox of perfectionism vs. realism, resources for instructor self-care, creating a safe space and confidential space, importance of and how to find guest speakersChapter authors: Patricia Kinser and Sarah Braun Chapter 6: Module 2: Mindfulness to Enhance Resilience and Handle BurnoutKey concepts: check-in about home practice, define and discuss burnout, mindfulness and neuroplasticity, effortful to effortlessActivities and practices: partner/group discussion - describe a time when you were burnt out and discuss healthy / unhealthy ways of coping, formal 'hand' practice, signs of burnout and non-negotiables worksheet Hand-outs / Resources: handout for using stickers with Stop/Breathe/Be, signs of burnout and non-negotiables worksheet, meditation recordingFormal mindful movement and meditation practice: Invite a yoga teacher to lead 45-minutes of gentle alignment-based yoga practice ending w…