Emphasising compassion for co-workers in medical training and healthcare organisations to address bullying

Simpson, Tamara; Simpson, Ace Volkmann

doi:10.12968/hmed.2021.0343

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“…Although compassion research in health care has typically focused on the clinician-patient dyad and the alleviation of patient suffering , Sinclair, Norris et al, 2016, Sinclair et al, 2017, 2020, interest in understanding compassion for and among healthcare workers has grown. This trend is concurrent with the management literature's attention to compassion for and among organizational members (Simpson et al, 2019(Simpson et al, , 2020Simpson & Simpson, 2021). Considering the unique realities of working in health care, the organizational definition of compassion has been adapted as follows: "the proactive, systematic, and continuous identification, alleviation, and prevention of all sources of workplace suffering" (Thienprayoon et al, 2022, p.2) This definition accounts for the fact that the work of health care is more likely to cause suffering than work in other industries (Thienprayoon et al, 2022).…”

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The impact of organizational compassion in health care on clinicians: A scoping review

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Awtrey

Kanov

et al. 2023

Worldviews Ev Based Nurs

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BackgroundThe unprecedented exodus of workers from the healthcare system is a patient safety crisis. Organizational compassion in health care is the proactive, systematic, and continuous identification, alleviation, and prevention of all sources of suffering.AimsThis scoping review aimed to describe the evidence regarding the impact of organizational compassion on clinicians, identify gaps, and provide recommendations for future research.MethodsA comprehensive librarian‐assisted database search was conducted. Databases searched were PubMed, SCOPUS, EMBASE, Web of Science, PsychInfo, and Business Source Complete. Combinations of search terms regarding health care, compassion, organizational compassion, and workplace suffering were used. The search strategy was limited to English language articles and those published between 2000 and 2021.ResultsDatabase search yielded 781 articles. After removing duplicates, 468 were screened by title and abstract, and 313 were excluded. One‐hundred and fifty‐five underwent full‐text screening, and 137 were removed, leaving 18 eligible articles, two of which were set in the United States. Ten articles evaluated barriers or facilitators to organizational compassion, four evaluated elements of compassionate leadership, and four evaluated the Schwartz Center Rounds intervention. Several described the need to create systems that are compassionate to clinicians. Lack of time, support staff, and resources impeded the delivery of such interventions.Linking evidence to actionLittle research has been done to understand and evaluate the impact of compassion on US clinicians. Given the workforce crisis in American health care and the potential positive impact of increasing compassion for clinicians, there is an urgent need for researchers and healthcare administrators to fill this gap.

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