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dc.contributor.authorBurridge, Letitia
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Michele
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-10T00:47:41Z
dc.date.available2022-02-10T00:47:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1440-3994en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.33235/jarna.22.1.7-15en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/390616
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Compassion is a core nursing value that is expected in health care, but it is unclear how rehabilitation nurses practise compassion in direct care where care demands usually compete for limited resources. Aim: This paper reports qualitative findings from a study on the dynamics of nursing compassion in rehabilitation settings where direct patient care is provided. Method: This qualitative study was conducted in a specialist rehabilitation unit in a tertiary hospital in south-east Queensland, Australia, between August and December 2017. A convenience sample of nurses from the spinal injuries unit or brain injury rehabilitation unit participated in audio-recorded focus group discussions guided by open-ended questions. The transcripts were analysed thematically. Findings: Twenty participants attended one of seven focus groups. The first theme explored the moralities of compassion in rehabilitation nursing, revealing that compassion was a discretionary aspect of daily practice governed by individual rules in a context dominated by tasks. The second theme explored the differential compassion in rehabilitation nursing, highlighting both the versatility of compassion and factors which enabled and depleted compassion. Discussion: Rehabilitation nurses managed potential conflicts between expectations and realities by making choices that sometimes prioritised tasks and rationed compassion. Some nurses engaged in the additional, complex and less visible work of intervening to compensate for an observed lack of compassion in a person-centred model of care. Conclusion: Although compassion is recognised as an individual nursing action, it is also an organisational ideal which suggests opportunities for organisational initiatives to strengthen and sustain compassion in rehabilitation nursing.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publisherCambridge Mediaen_US
dc.publisher.urihttps://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=500636376581904;res=IELHEAen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom7en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto15en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue1en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses' Associationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume22en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursingen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1110en_US
dc.titleCompassion in rehabilitation nurses who provide direct patient care: principles to pragmaticsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBurridge, L; Foster, M, Compassion in rehabilitation nurses who provide direct patient care: principles to pragmatics, Journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses' Association, 2019, 22 (1), pp. 7-15en_US
dc.date.updated2020-01-20T02:58:23Z
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gro.griffith.authorFoster, Michele M.
gro.griffith.authorBurridge, Letitia H.


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