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Compassion-SON Definition:" The feeling of deep sympathy or sorrow for another who is experiencing perceived or actual challenges or suffering, with the desire to alleviate the suffering. And be kind one to another , tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32
Class 4410: Management and Leadership
This assignment on critical thinking helped me identify that compassion is the starting point of critical thinking. The nurse must have the ability to be compassionate in work. Having the ability to focus on others, not self , takes great humility and compassion. To love someone else more than yourself and to devote your life to your patients like nurses and other healthcare professions do, demonstrates compassion.
Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline Descriptor: “The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care” (AACN, 2021).
Nursing 4310: Ethics in Nursing.
Informed consent and the protection of human rights is something we take for granted. The revelation of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Henrietta Lachs case make us question what can we do to make consent more understood. Balancing the need for research to advance scientific knowledge with how to obtain information with informed consent is an ethical and moral entity that must always be questioned.
Nursing 3005: Pathophysiology.
Stem Cell research invokes curiosity and debate among lay people, physicians, and scholars. To synthesize, translate, and apply all new knowledge is important in developing progressive health care interventions.