This article presents findings from a study about compassionate care-the development of person knowledge in a medical ward caring for older people. Appreciative inquiry, an approach to research that focuses on discovering what works well and implementing strategies to help these aspects happen most of the time, was used. Staff, patients, and families participated in this study, which used a ran...

Given that the ability to attend to a task without distraction underlies performance in a wide variety of contexts, training one's ability to stay on task should result in a similarly broad enhancement of performance. In a randomized controlled investigation, we examined whether a 2-week mindfulness-training course would decrease mind wandering and improve cognitive performance. Mindfulness tra...

Previous work has underscored the robust links between sanctification of marriage and marital outcomes, and recent developments in the literature suggest that compassionate love, which is important for intimate relationships, may act as a mediator of that relationship. Accordingly, the current study used actor-partner interdependence models to examine the relationship between a spiritual cognit...

Hemşirelik ve hemşirelik bakımı, özen merhamet fikirleri üzerine kurulmuştur. Merhametli bakım, günümüzde hastanelerde bir kalite göstergesi olarak görülmekle birlikte hastaların memnuniyetini arttıran, herhangi maddi gideri olmayan, hastada olumlu yönde pek çok fizyolojik etkileri olan, hastalar yakınlarında yaşam kalitesini hastalarda yara iyileşmesi de dahil olmak üzere birçok hastalığın iyi...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of clinical training on empathy levels undergraduate and postgraduate dental students. Materials Method: Two hundred seventy-six students (undergraduates from third, fourth fifth-grade, postgraduates different departments) completed student version Jefferson Scale Physician Empathy questionnaire. Total three subscale (perspective taking, compassionate care, abi...

Biomedical ethicists and clinical practitioners both champion the good of the patient, but sometimes their approaches diverge. The harmony of the ideal and the real is our utmost goal, but we often confront situations where theory falls apart in practice. A neonatal study performed by several noted institutions that is being audited by the US Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is a ca...