Negative Consequences of Providing Nursing Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

•NICU nurses in levels III and IV had relatively low nursery negative consequences of providing nursing care and relatively high self-compassion.•When nurse–physician collegiality was high, self-compassion mediated the association between the nurse–infant/family relationship and the negative consequences of providing nursing care.•When nurse–physician collegiality was low, there was no such relationship.