Defining compassion in a hospital setting: consensus on the characteristics that comprise compassion from researchers in the field.

Conclusions: Experts came to a consensus that compassion was a virtuous response involving awareness of and participation in the suffering of another conveyed through action intended to reduce the suffering observed. Experts placed less emphasis on compassion as sympathetic concern or pity. Compassion does not involve witnessing of the plight of another nor suffering with the patient. PMID: 32420794 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Contemporary Nurse - Category: Nursing Tags: Contemp Nurse Source Type: research