Compassion in Nursing av Alistair (University of Birmingham Birmingham) Hewison, Yvonne (Health Services Management Centre Birmingham) Sawbridge

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Is nursing in England experiencing a fundamental moral crisis? A number of recent high-profile reports about the state of nursing care in English hospitals certainly add weight to this argument; however, although the intense media attention on the decline of compassion in nursing has highlighted some of the issues, it has neither explained the underlying causes nor signalled a realistic solution. <br><br>In this timely and important book, a collection of expert authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience examine the multitude of areas that need to be understood, and issues that must be addressed, before the policy recommendations triggered by the latest furore can be realised. These include: <br><br>¿ Policy perspectives on compassion<br>¿ Analysis of the historical roots of the concept of compassion<br>¿ Examination of compassion in a contemporary nursing context, including patients'' perspectives<br>¿ The organisation of services to deliver compassion<br>¿ Approaches to