Compassion fatigue is defined as a physical and emotional exhaustion alongside diminished empathy
in caregivers of persons who experience suffering from acute or chronic health conditions. Loving Kindness Meditation is a practice with ancient roots and a component of modern Mindfulness practices. This study demonstrates that Loving Kindness Meditation for NICU nurses was an effective and easily implemented intervention to promote nursing resilience and prevent compassion fatigue.

A qualitative study focusing on shared mindfulness meditation among cancer patients, health professionals, and third persons demonstrated acceptability and benefits for participants. The study design utilized an intervention similar to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) which described in detail. The study included focus groups with patients, health professionals, and third persons, revealing positive perceptions towards meditating together.

I focus on this study for three reasons:
1) It is brief and potentially replicable as an intervention in other settings at minimal cost.
2) The Intervention – the Three Minute Breathing Space – has demonstrated efficacy and is easily taught.
3) The study author was taught to teach the Three Minute Breathing Space by one of the authors of the intervention, Zindel Siegal of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
4) I