Compassionate Care

In Nursing August 13, 2013

Royal Institute of Health Sciences

Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN

School of Nursing

at the UniversityOf VirginiaDorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN

Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing & Dean

Agenda

What is compassion? And empathy?

Why needed for nurses?

How to create compassionate people and systems

At the beginning…Upaya Buddhist

Retreat Center

Being with Dying

Started in April 2009

Today, 50 professionals from UVA in 4 cohorts

Compassion…experiencing a trembling or quivering of the heart in response to another’s pain

Sharon Salzburg

Empathy

Putting yourself in another’s shoes

Central concept of emotional intelligence

Requires not judging, staying open and listening deeply

Mindfulness

Being in touchPaying attentionIn the present On purposeNon-judgmental

From Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wherever you go, there you are (2005).

Susan Bauer-Wu

The Tussi and John Kluge Professor in Contemplative End-of-Life Care, Dr. Susan Bauer-Wu studies mindfulness as a route to living fully and enhancing stress resilience, and is a fervent advocate of compassionate care.

“If we truly practiced with compassion and empathy, what would the health care system look like? How would we be transformed? How might this change the outcomes for patients and families and the students we teach?”

Fontaine, D.K., Rushton, C., & Sharma, M. (in press, 2013). Fostering compassion and empathy. In Leading change and changing the way we lead.

Compassionate Care Initiative at UVA: Alleviating human suffering

Resilience

Health care providers

Students

Physicians- and nurses-to-be work in tandem at the annual Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in summer, in Wise, Virginia.

July 2012

Interprofessional education

How do we put compassion into action?

What are you willing to notice in your world?

Jonathan Bartels RNEmergency Department and the “Pause”

6 am Every Wednesday

Resilience Room, School of Nursing

Compassion as a Global Remedy

His Holiness the DalaiLama, October 2012

Cultivate. Create. Celebrate.