Suggestions for Implementation and Future Research

For future students a hybrid online course integrating occasional face-to-face meetings may be a good way to carry-out implementation of this MM intervention in nursing curriculum going forward. This would allow for improved treatment fidelity and was something that participants expressed a desire for in a post-intervention survey. This design would also allow for the use of a more comprehensive MBSR training program as the interventional modality which was not available in online format at the time of this study. Future research using this longer (eight week) intervention and expansion on training could yield additional data on the benefits of a full mindfulness meditation program for enhancing attention in nursing students. Additional research on the impact of MM on safety in nursing practice at the point of care – perhaps in simulation exercises – is also necessary to further investigate the correlation between attentional efficiency and direct patient-related outcomes.

95 5.12 Conclusion

The results of this study suggest cognitive training in the form of MM may possibly hold promise as a method of enhancing the executive attention efficiency of pre-licensure RN

students. These preliminary findings, from a first-known study of the interventional effect of MM on attentional efficiency in a specific population of pre-licensure nursing students, will require further investigation and replication. Other significant study findings support the integration of MM training into nursing curriculum for the development of mindfulness

characteristics as well as for a self-regulating stress reduction benefit that may have implications for patient safety as well. A convergence of these three outcomes may help nurse educators in their quest to cultivate more intrinsically safe nurses of the future.

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