Degree Name
Nursing Practice, DNP
Publication Date
8-8-2025
First Advisor
Lisa Drake
Second Advisor
Veronica Arredondo
Abstract
The DNP project examined medical healthcare personnel who displayed an impostor phenomenon (IP), as reflected in the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) surveys, identifying a lack of structured support for reducing stress. The aim of the quality improvement project (QI) is to evaluate the impact of a four-week structured mentorship and resilience training intervention on perceived stress levels among medical healthcare personnel experiencing symptoms of the impostor phenomenon. The QI project utilized the Cognitive-Affective framework to shape what needed to change, the origins of IP stress, while Lewin’s Change Theory guided how to implement and sustain those changes. A quasi-experimental study utilized pre- and post-test PSS-10 surveys to examine how mentorship and resilience training impacted IP stress. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was utilized for analysis to compare pre- and post-intervention scores using nonparametric testing assessing change in IP stress. Medians (Mdn) and interquartile ranges (IQR) were reported for each observation of the PSS-10. The pre-test did not differ substantially from the post-test showing no statistical significance in the PSS-10 (Mdn = 20.0, IQR = 18.0 – 25.0) to post-intervention (Mdn = 22.0, IQR = 21.0 – 23.5), Z = -0.67, p = 0.50. The QI project reflects the continued need aimed at finding explanations for IP in healthcare personnel related to stress reduction through integrating mentorship and resilience training for long term sustainability.
Rights Management
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Recommended Citation
L'Heureux, Elizabeth, "Quality Improvement Project Impact of Impostor Phenomenon on Medical Personnel" (2025). Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects. 132.
https://arch.astate.edu/dnp-projects/132
