The Library
Compassion in nursing : solution or stereotype?
Tools
Tools
Tools
Tierney, Stephanie, Bivins, Roberta E. and Seers, Kate (2019) Compassion in nursing : solution or stereotype? Nursing Inquiry, 26 (1). e12271. doi:10.1111/nin.12271 ISSN 1320-7881.
|
PDF
WRAP-compassion-nursing-solution-stereotype-Tierney-2018.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (487Kb) | Preview |
|
![[img]](http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
WRAP-compassion-nursing-solution-stereotype-Seers-2018.pdf - Accepted Version Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (673Kb) |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12271
Abstract
Compassion in healthcare has received significant attention recently, on an international scale, with concern raised about its absence during clinical interactions. As a concept, compassionate care has been linked to nursing. We examined historical discourse on this topic, to understand and situate current debates on compassionate care as a hallmark of high quality services. Documents we looked at illustrated how responsibility for delivering compassionate care cannot be consigned to individual nurses. Health professionals must have the right environmental circumstances to be able to provide and engage in compassionate interactions with patients and their relatives. Hence, although compassionate care has been presented as a straight forward solution when crisis faces health services, this discourse, especially in policy documents, has often failed to acknowledge the system-level issues associated with its provision. This has resulted in simplistic presentations of ‘compassion’ as inexpensive and the responsibility of individual nurses, a misleading proposal that risks devaluing the energy and resources required to deliver compassionate care. It also overlooks the need for organisations, not just individuals, to be charged with upholding its provision.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RT Nursing | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Warwick Research in Nursing |
||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nursing, Medical care | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nursing Inquiry | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1320-7881 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2019 | ||||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||||
| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | e12271 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/nin.12271 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Tierney S, Bivins R, Seers K. Compassion in nursing: Solution or stereotype? Nurs Inq. 2019;26:e12271. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12271. which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12271. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 October 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 December 2018 | ||||||||
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
||||||||
| Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
