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The Resiliency Room aboard Mercy gives Sailors access to a massage chair, yoga mat, calming music, scent sticks, and coloring books as ways to decompress and relax while aboard the ship. Sailors sign up for 30-minute blocks at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe resiliency room is an evidence based space, where crew members of the Mercy can go to get away and use evidence based items to de-stress, relax, and renew themselves from having a stressful day,\u201d said U.S. Navy Lt. Erik Sanchez, a clinical nurse specialist aboard Mercy.<\/p>\n

Medical care is one of Pacific Partnership\u2019s four lines of effort. The military doctors, nurses and hospital corpsman aboard Mercy provide care to thousands of patients during mission stops in host nations throughout the unifying mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we care for patients, we need to be at peak performance mentally,\u201d said Sanchez. \u201cIf we\u2019re really stressed, we won\u2019t be so focused on the patient and that\u2019s where errors can occur. Patient safety can become an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research shows that the use of wellness rooms, like the resiliency room aboard Mercy, mitigate worker stress in acute care settings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis room is designed to help reduce workplace stress which hopefully will improve staff members\u2019 morale and can also improve patient safety if the staff member is more relaxed and de-stressed,\u201d said Sanchez. \u201cNew environments can add to the difficulties faced by healthcare team members.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCaring for the sick and injured in a military treatment facility has its stressors. Those same stressors are here aboard the Mercy, but they\u2019re amplified because everyone here is away from friends and family,\u201d said Sanchez. \u201cThey\u2019re missing holidays. They are in new environments, experiencing language barriers, and the potential stress level for Sailors aboard this ship providing healthcare is exponential compared to back home, so myself and the team felt that it was important that we did something to help look after these caregivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

During its two months of availability, more than 130 crew members have utilized the room and its features. Staff who utilize the room have the option of filling out an anonymous survey, and Sanchez reports that the reviews are positive. \u201cPeople who have used the room are reporting about a 50% reduction in their self-reported stress level and about 78-80% of people leaving the room are reporting feeling more focused and ready to go back to work, so we\u2019re getting very positive results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate the team coming together to make sure that this happened even if it\u2019s only on Mercy,\u201d said U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christina Kaesberg. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great experience even as a trial run. It really has helped a lot of people on this ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting,\u201d Sanchez continued. \u201cThis is the first ever resiliency room in an operational setting to our knowledge, so it\u2019s exciting to open the first ever space of this kind in a shipboard environment. This should definitely improve patient safety and patient experience by caring for the caregiver,\u201d Sanchez concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Resiliency Room aboard Mercy gives Sailors access to a massage chair, yoga mat, calming music, scent sticks, and coloring books as ways to decompress and relax while aboard the ship. Sailors sign up for 30-minute blocks at a time. \u201cThe resiliency room is an evidence based space, where crew members of the Mercy can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":97082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97083,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080\/revisions\/97083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}