Self-Care Strategies for Professional Development: Transcendental Meditation Reduces Compassion Fatigue and Improves Resilience for Nurses.
Jennifer Rheingans Bonamer, Catherine Aquino-Russell
Journal for nurses in professional development 2019 DOI: 10.1097/nnd.0000000000000522 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Pre-post intervention study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 27 |
| Population | Nurses across levels and areas of a healthcare organization |
| Intervention | Transcendental Meditation technique |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Transcendental Meditation significantly improved compassion fatigue and resilience, and resilience had a large inverse relationship with burnout. |
Abstract
The Transcendental Meditation technique was provided to 27 nurses across levels and areas of the organization. Quantitative tools measured the effect on nurses' compassion fatigue and resilience. Paired-sample t test analyses revealed significant improvements in the phenomena studied. Further, resilience showed a large significant, inverse relationship with burnout. This study contributes new knowledge for an innovative self-care strategy to improve resilience and reduce compassion fatigue and burnout among nurses.