When we talk about compassion it can appear to be an overwhelming subject that we might never grasp or understand everything that we need to know about it. This might make people turn away from being compassionate because it is just too hard to understand and therefore practice. Many  of the posts in this blog do explore different aspects of compassionate nursing care but most of them return to the basic model that I have proposed on this blog. If we can keep it simple, we are more likely to remember and use the model and in any situation, be able to provide evidence for our nursing practice.

Ethical compassion is another area of practice that we should be focusing on every day but tend to ignore because it can be overwhelming . Developing our practice on a model of compassion will help us to be aware of our ethical practice and focus on wroking more with others. de Zulueta ( 2015:87)  provides a definition of medical ethics  as

The goal of clinical ethics (also known as ‘medical ethics’) is the improvement of the quality of patient care by identifying, analysing and attempting to resolve the ethical problems that arise in practice, with ethics integral to the practice of medicine. (My emphasis in bold)

They go on to discuss how important this is for everyday commpassionate practice which fits with my model of compassionate nursing practice. E.g.

Identfiying = Universality = See Me

Analysing = Diversity =Hear Me

Resolving =Recovery =Help Me

Keeping ethical compassion simple can help us to be aware every day, of the values beliefs and individual needs of each person that we meet.  If we can do this we can recognise and improve our practice everyday and demonstrate ethical compassionate outcomes for the people that we are working with.