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Compassionate Care In Nursing August 13, 2013 Royal Institute of Health Sciences Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN. School of Nursing at the University Of Virginia. Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing & Dean. Agenda.
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Compassionate Care In Nursing August 13, 2013 Royal Institute of Health Sciences Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN
School of Nursing at the University Of Virginia Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing & Dean
Agenda • What is compassion? And empathy? • Why needed for nurses? • How to create compassionate people and systems
At the beginning… • Upaya Buddhist Retreat Center • Being with Dying • Started in April 2009 • Today, 50 professionals from UVA in 4 cohorts
Compassion …experiencing a trembling or quivering of the heart in response to another’s pain Sharon Salzburg
Empathy • Putting yourself in another’s shoes • Central concept of emotional intelligence • Requires not judging, staying open and listening deeply
Mindfulness • Being in touch • Paying attention • In the present • On purpose • Non-judgmental From Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wherever you go, there you are (2005).
Susan Bauer-Wu The Tussi and John Kluge Professor in Contemplative End-of-Life Care, Dr. Susan Bauer-Wu studies mindfulness as a route to living fully and enhancing stress resilience, and is a fervent advocate of compassionate care.
“If we truly practiced with compassion and empathy, what would the health care system look like? How would we be transformed? How might this change the outcomes for patients and families and the students we teach?” Fontaine, D.K., Rushton, C., & Sharma, M. (in press, 2013). Fostering compassion and empathy. In Leading change and changing the way we lead.
Compassionate Care Initiative at UVA: Alleviating human suffering Resilience Health care providers Students
Physicians- and nurses-to-be work in tandem at the annual Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in summer, in Wise, Virginia.July 2012
6 am Every Wednesday Resilience Room, School of Nursing
Compassion as a Global Remedy His Holiness the Dalai Lama, October 2012