Advanced Practice Provider Intervention Study to Promote Wellness

This exploratory pilot study is designed as interventional study to examine the efficacy of a wellness initiative that involves use of a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) to assist in the development of diverse coping strategies such as management of stressors, self-care, time management, and any other goals, problems or concerns that APPs would like assistance with during the intervention period.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an educational professional wellness program designed to assist professional clinicians in developing self-awareness and self-care choices as a means to improve engagement and resilience and to avoid/reduce burnout.

Professional wellness counseling sessions provided to health care professionals through voluntary enrollment. Consultative sessions will conducted throughout the course of 1 year and number of subsequent sessions will be determined by the participant.

The Holmes-Rahe Scale is used to life changes that may impact stress. Minimum values =150 pts or less; maximum values = 300 pts. or more; higher scores indicate higher susceptibility to stress-induced health problems.

The Brief Resilience Scale developed by Smith et al. (2008) is used to measure resilience. Minimum value =6 and maximum value = 30; mean value is used to determine scoring with higher value indicating more resilience.

Work engagement is measured using the Utrecht Work and Well-being Survey Engagement instrument (UWES). The minimum value =0 and the maximum value = 54. Mean is used to determine scoring. Higher value indicates greater work engagement.

measures the increased probability of distress risk for personal or professional consequences. Minimum value =0 and maximum value =7. Mean and standard deviation is computed and compared to normative data.

Inclusion Criteria: employment within non-profit health care setting as a health care professional working at least 50% of time in direct patient care availability and interest in initial and follow-up wellness visits Exclusion Criteria: actively participating in formalized counseling sessions through other services at time of recruitment into the study

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