Stress is a natural body reaction to difficult or challenging situations3. Nursing students are likely to experience “more stress” than their friends and colleagues enrolled in other programs. Clinical practice has been identified as one of the most anxiety producing components in nursing programs. Lack of experience, fear of making mistakes, discomfort at being evaluated by faculty members, worrying about giving patients the wrong information or medication and concern about possibly harming a patient are just a few of the stressors for the beginning student nurse.

Mindfulness meditation has been proven effective for reducing stress. Recently healthcare providers of multiple disciplines are overwhelmingly turning to the practice of mindfulness meditation as a useful tool in building a self-care routine. Meditation has several benefits such as deeper level of relaxation, builds self-confidence,, helps to control own thought, Improve learning ability and memory, increase emotional stability, increase productivity, develop will power, react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event, more sociable behaviour, increases listening skills and empathy, helps make more accurate judgments, greater tolerance, more balanced personality, develops emotional maturity. experience an inner sense of “assurance or knowingness”, increases the synchronicity in your life.