The Nursing Interventions Classification system

includes forgiveness facilitation as part of the research-based taxonomy of nursing interventions and provides the following definition of it: “Assisting an individual’s willingness to replace feelings of anger and resentment toward another, self, or higher power, with beneficence, empathy, and humility ” (p. 203). Yet, to design effective evidence-based forgive-ness interventions that promote health in the nurs-ing realm, nurses need guidance in finding the types and characteristics of interventions that work best. Study results have shown that forgiveness con-tributes to health promotion (Dossey, Keegan, Barrere, & Helming, 2013). Dossey et al. (2013) note that these studies have shown that “forgiveness is good for our physical, mental, and emotional well-being ” (p. 709). In a summary of the results of forgiveness, Recine and colleagues note that people with higher forgiveness scores use less medicine, have better sleep quality, fewer somatic complaints, less fatigue, less depression, less fear of death, better cardiovascular health, and greater life satisfaction (Recine, Werner, & Recine, 2009). Sufficient studies on forgiveness have been done to determine the antecedents of forgiving others. These antecedents include higher levels of educa-tion, empathy, valuing interdependence, the passage of time, spirituality, religiosity, belief in forgiveness by God, and therapeutic forgiveness interventions (Recine, Werner, & Recine, 2007). There is multidisciplinar