Compassion satisfaction is recognized as a potentially protective factor in reducing compassion fatigue or burnout among health care workers. This study examined whether nurses’ professional quality of life scores significantly improved after nurses learned and implemented massage techniques. Participating nurses in a U.S. hospital most often administered massage to relieve patients’ stress and pain. Nurses were able to incorporate massage into daily nursing care and perceived massage as relaxing for the patients and themselves. Burnout was significantly reduced over time for the study sample. Nurse-delivered massage should be further investigated for its ability to promote therapeutic nurse-patient relationships.
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