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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"compassionate care"”.
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Compassionate Care, the Patient Perspective
… fundamental purpose. As a component of healthcare and nursing models, however, defining characteristics and standards are inconsistent. Compassion as a means of establishing a connection on a spiritual level abounds in the literature (Buck, 2006; Grant, 2004; O'Brien, 2008; Schultz et al., …
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Nurses’ views on compassionate care: a study using Q methodology
Compassion and compassionate care are identified as essential elements in nursing. They enhance quality care, wellbeing, and the overall quality of patients’ lives. However, incidents of substandard care have highlighted inherent tensions between competing professional and organisational demands in …
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Leaning into Love and Compassionate Care in my Early Years Practice.
… The need for children to experience Love and Compassionate Care within our early years education system is needed now more than ever. Our policies favour terminology such as ‘whole systems approach’ and ‘economicus’. The standardisation of children’s learning is facing a worldwide crisis of …
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A visual ethnographic study on nurse lecturers’ enactment of compassionate care within the adult pre-registration nursing curriculum
Aim of the study: To explore how compassionate care is enacted within the adult pre-registration nursing curriculum (APNC) by Nurse lecturers (NLs). Background: Compassionate care is rooted in the nursing profession and there is a general assumption that nurses are compassionate to those they …
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Development and validation of a reflective tool to measure compassionate care for older people in health and social care settings
… To develop and validate a novel tool to measure compassionate care for older people in health and social care settings.<br/><br/><b>Method:</b> This project utilised a mixed-methods study design, consisting of three phases: 1) a Group Concept Mapping method to define the concept of compassionate …
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A call to care : exploring the social politics of compassionate care and rescue in the context of a care programme for children in contemporary Swaziland
… numbers of children in need of extra-familial care and the parallel proliferation of humanitarian organisations being set up to deal with these systemic vulnerabilities, this thesis explores the practices and politics of childcare and rescue in contemporary Swaziland. Focusing on a single …
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Hospice Nurses Knowledge, Attitudes, and Reported Confidence in End-of-Life Story Telling and Perceptions of the Dying Experience: Intervention Study
… a subjective experience. Hospice Nurses provide compassionate care for the dying. Utilizing a quasi-experimental single group repeated measures design, the researcher examined the relationship between an end-of-life story telling class and subsequent nurse’s knowledge, attitudes, and confidence. …
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A Concept Analysis of Compassion in Healthcare Practice
… of compassion is frequently discussed in healthcare literature but despite this, is potentially poorly understood and lacks consensus in definition. This study sought to clarify what exactly is meant by the term compassion in a healthcare context and how this is defined in both the literature …
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Amplifying Clear, Caring, and Courageous Leaders to Cultivate Compassionate, Quality Practice Environments
… can be intentionally amplified to foster compassionate and high-quality practice environments within Fraser Health. Employing a multi-method qualitative action research design grounded in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Participatory Action Research (PAR), the study engaged leaders and their …
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COMPASSION SUSTAINMENT: BURN NURSE RESILIENCE
… the critical role of compassion in healthcare, the research addresses the gap in understanding if positive adaptive cognitive mechanisms relate to the nurses’ ability to maintain compassion amidst emotionally taxing environments. Using a cross-sectional survey design, data from 37 burn …
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COMPASSION SUSTAINMENT: BURN NURSE RESILIENCE
… the critical role of compassion in healthcare, the research addresses the gap in understanding if positive adaptive cognitive mechanisms relate to the nurses’ ability to maintain compassion amidst emotionally taxing environments. Using a cross-sectional survey design, data from 37 burn …
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Genuinely caring: compassion and the healing nature of the therapeutic relationship
… emphasised the delicate interpersonal nature of compassionate care that occurs between the nurse and patient. Study findings suggest some factors that inhibit and facilitate compassion which play a powerful role in a nurse’s ability to care compassionately. The findings of the present study …
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Using Media-Based Representations of Reproductive Health Choices to Discuss the Real and Ideal Experiences of Latina Women
… when attempting to access reproductive health care services. Results are based on focus groups and individual interviews held with first and second-generation Latina immigrants as well as reproductive health care advocates and health care providers. Particular attention is paid to prenatal care …
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A Phenomenological Study of Women's Lived Experiences of Disrespect and Abuse in Maternal and Child Health Services (MCH) in Lusaka District, Zambia
… women's dignity, trust and utilization of healthcare services. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of women receiving MCH care in Lusaka District, Zambia and examined how such experiences influence emotional well-being, healthcare-seeking behavior and overall satisfaction with …
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Bridging the gap between clinicians' delivery and patients' experience of eating disorder diagnoses
… assessment and treatment process. The need for compassionate care from professionals was an important component that was highlighted and recommendations were made in this regard. It is argued that increased awareness of patient experience will help clinicians to develop stronger therapeutic …
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Adult nurses’ understanding and use of courage in their professional practice: Realising Courage in nursing
… in the nursing vision ‘Developing the culture of compassionate care’ (Cummings and Bennett, 2012) and ‘Compassion in Practice’ (CBCN and DHCHA, 2012). The framework ‘Leading Change, Adding Value’ (NHS England, 2016) also reaffirmed the requirement for courage. The rationale for this study is the …
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Quantitative investigations of compassion satisfaction and challenges to compassion in mental health professionals
… satisfaction’ (CS): a positive effect of caregiving where gratification is derived from caring for patients. Stamm’s model of professional quality of life was employed to analyse 16 quantitative studies for evidence of predictors and correlates of CS in mental health professionals (MHPs). …
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Emergency Contraception, Catholic Hospitals, and Rape
… to implantation have led many Catholic healthcare facilities to limit a rape victims access to emergency contraception (EC), due to what the Church construes to be EC's potentially abortifacient properties. While the science is uncertain, the withholding of EC by Catholic healthcare facilities …
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The Patient Experience as Rated By Consumers
… to Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) in determining the compensation a facility receives for reimbursement in the Value Based Purchasing model. The results of this study have a financial implication for healthcare, as well as in the delivery of …
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An Assessment of the integration of Palliative Care in the Health System of the Cape Metro District of South Africa
Background Palliative Care (PC) is a neglected yet core component of health care in the public sector. It embodies holistic, people-centred, compassionate care, focussing on vulnerable patients, and their families, with life threatening illness, to enhance their quality of life. Globally and in …
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