Compassionate Care: Can it be Defined and Measured? The Development of the Compassionate Care Assessment Tool
Background: Compassion has not been universally defined or understood, nonetheless is recognized as a component of nursing excellence. If compassionate care is routine in health care delivery models, nursing behaviors and actions that exemplify compassion ought to be easily identifiable to patients....
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Language: | English |
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Professor Despina Sapountzi-Krepia
2013-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Caring Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/6.%20Burnell%20Compassionate%20Care%20Tool.pdf |