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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)

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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.

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