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Integrating Mindfulness Meditation Into Undergraduate Nursing Curricula, Michelle Yankowiak
Integrating Mindfulness Meditation Into Undergraduate Nursing Curricula, Michelle Yankowiak
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Stress and anxiety impact the lives of undergraduate nursing students. Learning how to cope with the stressful demands of nursing school is essential for student success. Watson's caring and healing philosophy notes that learning to care for self is foundational in learning to care for others. Literature also reports that nursing programs across the country are lacking instruction on alternative therapies as a self-care method. A need to integrate self-care into curricula was identified by personal knowing as a nursing clinical instructor and through a self-care questionnaire to undergraduate obstetric nursing students. The integration of mindfulness meditation, as a means …