Patients with advanced cancers often endure chemotherapy late in their disease course leading to unnecessary adverse effects, loss of quality of life, and delay in hospice referral. Compassionate and honest communication about the use of chemotherapy can facilitate better patient care. This manuscript will explore communication issues regarding palliative-intent chemotherapy.

Recently a compassionate love scale was developed to assess compassionate love or altruistic love for different targets (e.g., romantic partner, close others and all the humanity; Sprecher & Fehr, 2005). This study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the Compassionate Love Scale in the Portuguese context. In addition, it has been examined how compassionate love for a romanti...

Abstract Background Compassionate care is one of the concepts that important to patients with chronic diseases, especially for undergoing hemodialysis who deal all kinds problems and sufferings. This study aimed measure level compassionate from perspective assess relationship between coping disease. Methods cross-sectional was conducted on 240 in two centers. The participants were selected by r...

BACKGROUND Compassion is an important part of nursing. It fosters better relationships between nurses and their patients. Moreover, it gives patients more confidence in the care they receive. Determining facilitators of compassion are essential to holistic care. The purpose of this study was to explore these facilitators. MATERIALS AND METHODS This ethnographic study was conducted in 2014-201...

In trying to improve clinician communication skills, we have often heard clinicians at every level admonished to "use silence," as if refraining from talking will improve dialogue. Yet we have also noticed that this "just do it," behavior-focused "use" of silence creates a new, different problem: the clinician looks uncomfortable using silence, and worse, generates a palpable atmosphere of unea...

We have been invited to imagine a future where the care for older people goes beyond the current paradigm. This article challenges the fundamental assumptions that underlie current care practices and, instead, promotes systems and processes that elevate nourishing and stimulating relationships with basic dignity, as well as personal agency, in the later days of life. Healthcare professionals st...