On self-compassion and self-care in nursing: selfish or essential for compassionate care?

Compassionate care in nursing is increasingly an rnational concern. While the literature to date has ussed on redressing a compassion and care deficit oss the nursing discipline (Crawford et al., 2014; Dewar al., 2014; Scott, 2014), we suggest here that due sideration be given to its relationship to self-care and -compassion in nurses. After all, a deficit in these promises nurses’ therapeutic use of self in the vision of compassionate care to patients. As a noted olar and practitioner of compassion, the Dalai Lama 03, p. 125) argues that: