Compassionate Health Care

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been a significant upward trend in global interest from the health sciences in the notion of compassion, and a global approach has been attempted from a variety of perspectives. The need for compassionate care is mainly distinguished from requirements and is perceived by many reports, including the notification of deficits and even basic care in hospital. It is possible to say that care, compassion, and empathy may come at a cost to health professionals, with the ability to or interest in experiencing the suffering of other people being limited. Nowadays, the moral interest mainly focuses on the quality of relationships with the main goal of paying attention to the interconnectedness and bridging the duality of moral justice and equality, moral care, and compassion. 

The scope of this Special Issue is to determine the relation of compassionate care to the following:

1. The quality of care and  patient safety;
2. Well-being, resilient  nurses, and  the cultivation of  self-compassion; 
3. Ways of combating compassion fatigue;
4. This Special Issue aims to bring together new research in the field, uniting scientists and clinical carers in order to present things nurses need to know in order to cultivate their self-compassion and ways to combat compassion fatigue, especially in the meta-COVID era. 

We welcome contributions  in the form of original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, brief research reports, and commentaries. 

Dr. Maria Malliarou
Guest Editor

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• compassionate care
• quality care
• patient safety
• resilience
• self-compassion
• compassion fatigue