Nursing strategies that enhance patient and family member perspectives of having received compassionate care: A scoping review - PubMed
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- Compassionate care improves quality of life, health experiences, and outcomes.
- Lack of compassionate care leads to negative experiences for patients and families.
- Scoping review identifies nursing strategies enhancing perceptions of compassionate care.
- Six strategy categories: building rapport, meeting needs, therapeutic communication, relieving suffering, competent practice, and education.
- Facilitators and barriers include nurse attributes, patient/family attributes, organizational, sociocultural, and environmental factors.
- Five measures of compassionate care were identified across studies.
- Future research should incorporate non-Western cultural perspectives and test interventions.
- Study registered on August 23, 2023, with DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/2EHWP.