The health of incarcerated individuals is worse than the general population. As a result, they are at greater risk developing life-limiting and chronic conditions, which require palliative potentially end-of-life care. Understanding healthcare professionals’ perceptions challenges practicalities around providing care in prisons key to advance state services. Three databases were searched (CINAH...

So-called compassionate therapy can provide life-saving drug(s) for patients but can also introduce liabilities that may discourage such treatment. The procedures required for compassionate use of imipenem/cilastatin and a summary of the results of its use are used as examples. Physicians requesting drugs for compassionate therapy face problems in the timely acquisition of antibiotic from the m...

Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set depicting compassionate and critical facial expressions, and validated its effectiveness using well-established visual-probe methodology. In Study 1, 62 participants rated photogr...

Although people generally are optimistic about the future, they will lower their predictions to brace for bad news when confronting a challenge to their predictions. Three studies examined whether this shift in predictions for self-relevant outcomes extends to predictions for others' outcomes. That is, the authors explored whether people display "compassionate bracing." Results reveal that part...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To uncover dimensions of nurses' professional experiences of cancer survivorship. DESIGN Interpretive, phenomenologic. SETTING Metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. SAMPLE 25 RNs diagnosed with cancer. Average age was 50 years, and 20 participants were less than five years from initial diagnosis. METHODS Interviews. Data were analyzed using the methodol...

How best to strengthen compassion in healthcare has become a controversial subject, especially when governments attempt to ‘implement’ compassion through policy and regulation. This case study describes a workshop, designed according to principles of appreciative inquiry, which elicits stories of deep connection and caring, and uncovers the hidden strengths of the workshop participants. This re...