Compassion is an important concept that is currently being assessed. The nurse educators and students need to understand this concept so as to improve the quality of care received by the patient. Compassionate care improves patient satisfaction with nursing care therefore, the need to have a validated tool for assessment of all involved in nursing care and training.
Dear Patience,
You are correct, compassion is a crucial aspect of healthcare. This article may be of help -
Burnell L. and Agan (2013) Compassionate care: can it be defined and measured? the development of the Compassionate Care Assessment Tool. International Journal of Caring and Sciences 6(2), 180-187.
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Magdalena.
Dear colleagues, thank you for your input in this ensuing discussion. I still expect more contributions to this topical concept.
Dear Jonas, I am very interested in this topic and will like to carry out a multi- country study. As you have suggested we can cooperate and carry out this study. It will be nice to work with you. Thanks for the offer. Dr. Patience Samson-Akpan
Dear Jonaz, thanks for your prompt response. Your area of specialization makes this study more interesting to me. I am thinking of a topics like 1) Activities of compassion behaviour among nurses 2) undergraduate nursing students' perception of their compassion behaviour 3) Nurses perception of their compassion behaviour towards their patients.4) Influence of nurse educators' compassion on undergraduate nursing students' perception of their own compassion behaviours. Can you suggest on something we can work on. Please send me your contact email. Greetings from Nigeria
Dear Patience,
I do believe that compassion is crucial for high quality nursing care and nurses must be competent in this matter. I also agree with Jonas about the effect of cultural differences on perception of compassion among nurses and nurse students. I'm interested in doing this study too.
I have enclosed a recently published paper on development and validation of an instrument to measure nurses' compassion competence. Thanks. Alaa
Dear Alaa, thank you for the article with instrument. We are working on the cultural influence title and I believe it will be interesting. Can you send me your email. Regards, Pat.
Dear Alaa, thank you for the article with instrument. We are working on the cultural influence title and I believe it will be interesting. Can you send me your email. Regards, Pat.
Hello Patience. I am very interested on the topic relative to nurses' culture -compassion. I am presently working as a nurse faculty in an Adventist College here in the Philippines. Perhaps, religion may also affect compassion. I am also interested to join you in your study to represent the Philippines. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I did my dissertation on perceptions of power of prayer, included national and international data.
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