NSE 11A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-9: Tenderly
13 May 2015
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Compassion is a complex and challenging dance in which the nurse moves back and forth. Recognition of suffering is rst step in the dance of compassion. The desire to do something about the patient"s suffering is the third step patient. Compassionate involvement may be exhibited in various ways incl. advocacy. Compassion is always without judgment because judging a patient separates them from the. Acceptance comes from the recognition that the nurse, like the patient, is capable of. Suffering may be thought of as the distress brought by the actual or perceived impending. Whole person involves more than physical existence, involves sense of being spiritually and. Events threatening one"s continuity or way of life evokes suffering. Experience of suffering is different for the sufferer and the one who observes the sufferer: physical or spiritual pain cannot be avoided or denied by sufferer but observer can.
