Compassion in Practice
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Compassion in Practice: An audio and video based study with advanced clinical practitioners
IRAS ID
255858
Contact name
Alison Edgley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Nottingham
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
Patients, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all agree that compassionate care is an important feature of nursing practice. A lack of compassion has been associated with harm to patients in a number of healthcare inquiries. Yet, we know little about the actual skills and techniques, which are used by nurses to convey compassion. The present study will therefore video-record nurse-patient interaction in clinical settings in order to identify the communication practices that advanced clinical practitioners use to convey compassion.
We will research the communication that takes place between specialist nurses, called advanced clinical practitioners, and older patients in two settings: 1) health care of the older person wards in a teaching hospital 2) a community in-patient unit commissioned to provide re-enablement to older people. We will record up to 40 consultations involving up to 8 advanced clinical practitioners (and up to 40 accompanying healthcare staff or students) and 40 patients (and any accompanying relatives/friends). We will use conversation analysis to describe their communication patterns and will focus on identifying the verbal and non-verbal practices, which convey compassion. Our findings will be used as the basis for written reports and staff training resources.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/YH/0012
Date of REC Opinion
22 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion