Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Nursing Staff Burn-Out
The research paper describes a study to investigate the impact of a nurse led mindfulness meditation on compassion fatigue on a nursing unit of a large metropolitan hospital in the US. The study suggests that brief (5 minute) nurse-led interventions can have a significant impact reducing compassion fatigue and burn-out.
Mindfulness, Attention, & High Stress – Training Our Minds To Strengthen Our Resilience.
In this podcast Dr. Amishi Jha describes the brain’s attention system as “the lifeblood of our experience”. Using fMRI, EEGs, and behavioral measures she studies the brain’s ability to notice and focus on specific information, both external and internal, the degradation caused by stress, and how mindfulness training can strengthen and improve attention, especially for nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers.