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Being Mindful in a Mindless World

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The current environment in which healthcare professionals (HCPs) work is often chaotic and physically and emotionally draining. The prevalence of burnout and turnover cause concern to the individual professional and the healthcare system at large. This chapter focuses on the key mindfulness concepts of intention, attitude, and attention and provides examples of how targeted mindfulness practices can be incorporated into the busy daily schedules of HCPs. The authors (a physician intensivist, an academic faculty member, and a primary care nurse practitioner) provide specific examples from their professional lives of situations that threaten intention, attitude, and attention and give suggestions for mindfulness practices that have helped them. This chapter sets the stage for delivering a mindfulness curriculum to interdisciplinary healthcare professionals.

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  1. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Dana Burns & Carla Nye

  2. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems, Richmond, VA, USA

    Catherine Grossman

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Burns, D., Nye, C., Grossman, C. (2022). Being Mindful in a Mindless World. In: Braun, S.E., Kinser, P.A. (eds) Delivering Compassionate Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91062-4_4

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