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Nurses’ experiences of compassion when giving palliative care at home
Centre for Care Research Mid-Norway, Norway; Nord University, Norway.
Högskolan i Gävle.
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Nursing Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1614-7379
2020 (English)In: Nursing Ethics, ISSN 0969-7330, E-ISSN 1477-0989, Vol. 27, no 1, p. 194-205Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Background: Compassion is seen as a core professional value in nursing and as essential in the effort of relieving suffering and promoting well-being in palliative care patients. Despite the advances in modern healthcare systems, there is a growing clinical and scientific concern that the value of compassion in palliative care is being less emphasised. Objective: This study aimed to explore nurses’ experiences of compassion when caring for palliative patients in home nursing care. Design and participants: A secondary qualitative analysis inspired by hermeneutic circling was performed on narrative interviews with 10 registered nurses recruited from municipal home nursing care facilities in Mid-Norway. Ethical considerations: The Norwegian Social Science Data Services granted permission for the study (No. 34299) and the re-use of the data. Findings: The compassionate experience was illuminated by one overarching theme: valuing caring interactions as positive, negative or neutral, which entailed three themes: (1) perceiving the patient’s plea, (2) interpreting feelings and (3) reasoning about accountability and action, with subsequent subthemes. Discussion: In contrast to most studies on compassion, our results highlight that a lack of compassion entails experiences of both negative and neutral content. Conclusion: The phenomenon of neutral caring interactions and lack of compassion demands further explorations from both a patient – and a nurse perspective.

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2020. Vol. 27, no 1, p. 194-205
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36663DOI: 10.1177/0969733019839218ISI: 000510996500017PubMedID: 31023157Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85064909761OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-36663DiVA, id: diva2:1335973
Available from: 2019-07-08 Created: 2019-07-08 Last updated: 2020-03-16Bibliographically approved

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