BACKGROUND: Clinician burnout is prevalent and associated with poorer patient safety outcomes. Although mindfulness-based interventions can improve clinician resilience, most are time-intensive and not easily embedded into clinical workflows. We thus evaluated a brief mindfulness-based intervention designed to enhance mindful awareness and clinician well-being among physicians and nurses....
Addressing physician burnout and patients' distrust of healthcare is a priority. To foster more reciprocally healing experiences in healthcare, we provide an evidence-based conceptual model of sacred moments. "Sacred moments" are brief periods in which people experience transcendence, boundlessness, ultimacy, deep interconnectedness, and spiritual emotions. First, we review empirical and...