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- Published on: 1 October 2022
- Published on: 1 October 2022Re: Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
This response is in relation to the article mentioned above published in February 2018. This article was a compelling irresistible paper that caught my attention and was an enjoyable perusal. While reading this article, I was able to understand the need for compassionate care interventions for hospital nursing teams while caring for older persons. Simply because being a student nurse training and transitioning throughout the public hospital and clinics gave me the experience of working alongside register nurses, and other health care workers with conducting nursing care and intervention for older persons in acute care settings. In addition, there is a minimal amount of compassion during the care of intervention when it comes down to patients. Hence, the reason for individuals being afraid or timid of receiving medical care.
Furthermore, I do agree that compassionate care interventions for hospital nursing teams caring for older patients should have been evaluated but, not just for older patients but all patients in general who is admitted to a medical facility in an acute care setting. Therefore, the service of care would be impeccable and the moral attributes of a compassionate nurse mention in the article will come into play which are "wisdom, humanity, love, and empathy" (Gould LJ, et al., 2018).
Utilizing the Patient report evaluation of emotional care in hospital (PEECH), and Jefferson Scale of empathy (JSE) were great survey tools that helped...
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