Can You “Teach” Compassion As nurse educators‚ who could be a better example of teaching compassion to us than the Son of God Himself‚ Jesus Christ? Jesus was the ultimate teacher‚ healer‚ and lover of mankind. Matthew 9:35-39 states: “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages‚ teaching in their synagogues‚ preaching the gospel of the kingdom‚ and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes‚ He was moved with compassion for them‚ because
Premium Nursing Nurse Education
Health providers suffer from an emotional problem called compassion fatigue. Often times compassion fatigue occurs do to the situations encountered by health care professionals and the pain they feel for the patients they care for. One of the essential components of health care is providing care is compassion Compassion is one of the fundamental characteristics implemented into patient care by health care providers. Compassion signifies “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is
Premium
Compassion is important in every walk of life. The definition of compassion is : a virtue of empathy for the suffering of others and a desire to alleviate that suffering. Compassion is important because it makes up who you are and is a strong part of human love. Without compassion‚ no human could ever get close to each other or function together as a society. Without compassion‚ people would not be able work together because they would not care about anyone else’s pain. There would be no working
Premium Virtue Self-esteem Magic
Compassion‚ or the sympathy for others‚ plays a huge role in society‚ for most people recognize and have empathy for other people’s misfortunes. This compassion is a major theme that is demonstrated in many different ways throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is represented by people who are looked down upon within a community in both the book and today. Jem‚ a young boy‚ shows compassion in the novel when he recognizes the unfairness of Tom Robinson’s verdict just because
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Homelessness Harper Lee
history‚ compassion has been an essential sentiment necessary for proper human interaction. Compassion allows people to put themselves in the position of others and strive to understand the problems‚ while feeling the emotions coupled with said problems. It is often asserted that a redeeming quality this vital must be an innate part of human beings‚ a characteristic that a person is genetically predisposed towards. Contrarily‚ it is claimed that an emotional skill as benevolent as compassion‚ must be
Premium Nature versus nurture Human Humans
What does compassion really mean to me? It means to show empathy to someone who is hurt or who got their feelings hurt. Like‚ Elie Wiesel‚ Elie was a Holocaust survivor. He cared for everyone. Compassion meant a lot to him because no one showed compassion. Compassion means to me too‚ show love to someone like Elie Wiesel did. Also‚ to show kindness towards others‚ even if they don’t deserve it. That’s what compassion means to me! The Nazi’s and Hitler showed no compassion during the Holocaust
Premium
Count: 2‚335 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Framework of Compassion Fatigue University of Texas at Arlington Exploration of Science and Theories for Nursing N5327 Rhonda Mintz-Binder‚ DNP RN CNE September 11‚ 2014 Compassion fatigue‚ which is also known‚ as secondary traumatic stress is a natural effect that occurs as a result of taking care of patients who are in pain‚ stressed‚ suffering‚ or traumatized. Compassion fatigue commonly affects nurses who show extreme empathy for
Premium Nursing Health care provider
Compassion If you look up compassion in the dictionary‚ you will see the following definition: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. The construct of compassion is not clearly defined in psychological literature. We define compassion as a feeling of sorrow or concern for another person’s suffering or need accompanied by a subsequent desire to alleviate the suffering. Compassion is an emotion: a short-lived feeling that anyone may experience.
Premium Feeling Suffering Emotion
view of Concepts: Competence‚ Professionalism‚ and Compassion Abstract There are different views on the concepts of nursing. Nurses can have the same views on nursing concepts as patients do with only slight difference. But overall the concepts of competence‚ professionalism‚ and compassion are viewed very similarly between the nurse and patient interviewed for this paper. Competence plays a key role in the quality of patient care. Compassion is a basis of nursing that expresses empathy towards
Premium Nursing Nurse Florence Nightingale
According to Barbara MacKinnon we have a propensity to think of ethics as the set of values or principles held by individuals or groups. Each person is set to have their own ethics‚ and groups have sets of values that they tend to identify. Ethics can be thought of the study of the various sets of values that people have. Ethics which is also known as moral philosophy is the discipline apprehensive with what is morally good and bad or what is right and wrong. The phrase is applied to any classification
Premium Ethics Morality Philosophy