Compassionate Practices for Nurse Managers in Colombia

Objective: To recognize compassionate practices and the obstacles to their use by nurse managers in Colombia. Method: This is a mixed cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory, international study with an online survey administered 17 countries. Data were extracted from Colombia sample of 69 managers. Quantitative data analyzed descriptive statistics, qualitative processed using Nvivo software thematic analysis. Results: 90 % women, mainly hospital setting (40 %). Compassionate administrative nursing involve four categories: Listening; supporting recognizing staff individuality; defining compassion practices, needs, benefits; receiving complementary views administration where influence cultural organizational patterns become compassion. Conclusion: For nursing, demonstrates intentional ability singularity someone else’s suffering, understand offer support, find solutions based on understanding what being human means. These aspects require significant changes at health legislation levels mitigate