AbstractAimTo report an analysis of the concept of mindfulness.BackgroundMindfulness is an emerging concept in health care that has significant implications for a variety of clinical populations. Nursing uses this concept in limited ways, and subsequently requires conceptual clarity to further identify its significance, use and applications in nursing.DesignMindfulness was explored using Rodgers evolutionary method of concept analysis.Data SourcesFor this analysis, a sample of 59 English theoretical and research‐based articles from the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature database were obtained. The search was conducted between all‐inclusive years of the database, 1981–2012.Review MethodsData were analysed with particular focus on the attributes, antecedents, consequences, references and related terms that arose in relation to mindfulness in the nursing literature.ResultsThe analysis found five intricately connected attributes: mindfulness is a transformative process where one develops an increasing ability to ‘experience being present’, with ‘acceptance’, ‘attention’ and ‘awareness’. Antecedents, attributes and consequences appeared to inform and strengthen one
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