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Harnessing Compassion to Support Nurses' Mental Health: A Qualitative Study.

Marianne Sofronas¹, Sheri Lynn Price², Houssem Eddine Ben-Ahmed³

¹School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

The Canadian Journal of Nursing Research = Revue Canadienne De Recherche En Sciences Infirmieres

|June 10, 2026

Summary

Compassion significantly impacts nurses' mental health and workplace experiences. Uncompassionate environments lead to presenteeism and difficulties with leave and return-to-work processes, highlighting the need for organizational support.

Keywords:

Compassion compassionate communities nurses’ mental health nursing workforce psychological safety

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Area of Science:

Nursing
Mental Health
Organizational Psychology

Background:

Abundant literature documents nurses' mental health concerns.
Working conditions are a significant contributing factor to nurse mental health.
Compassion emerged as a key factor in nurses' mental health experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the role of compassion in nurses' mental health experiences.
To explore compassion's impact on interprofessional relationships.
To investigate compassion's influence on engagement with institutional policies.

Main Methods:

Secondary analysis of a dataset from a study on seven professional cohorts in Canada.
Qualitative analysis of interviews with 52 nurses across Canada.
Inductive approach using interpretive description, guided by the Compassionate Communities framework.

Main Results:

Workplace compassion influenced nurses' mental health, leave of absence, and return-to-work processes.
Uncompassionate environments led to presenteeism and delayed recognition of distress.
Nurses faced stigma and negative impacts on professional identity and relationships when disclosing mental health concerns.

Conclusions:

Compassionate organizational practices are crucial for supporting nurses' mental health.
Implementing compassionate processes fosters psychologically safe work environments.
This study contributes to understanding compassion, compassionate communities, and nurses' mental health.