The importance of self-compassion for health visitors' wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 510-515
Author(s):  
Laura Woods
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Group Interventions ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Health Visitors ◽  
Staff Wellbeing

This article presents an extended literature review, undertaken to understand the significance of self-compassion for health professionals' wellbeing and its relevance for the health visiting workforce. The review showed that self-compassion reduces compassion fatigue, burnout, anxiety, stress and depression. Further, self-compassionate employees are more compassionate towards colleagues and patients, and compassionate practice enhances staff wellbeing. Organisational support for wellbeing increases staff members' sense of worth, resulting in improved ownership of their own wellbeing, and group interventions in particular foster self-compassionate work cultures. The review concludes that self-compassion enhances staff wellbeing and recommends that all NHS staff should be provided with the tools to prevent compassion fatigue and burnout.

scholarly journals Online Training in Specific Meditation Practices Improves Gratitude, Well-Being, Self-Compassion, and Confidence in Providing Compassionate Care Among Health Professionals

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Rao ◽  
Kathi J. Kemper
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
Clinician Training ◽  
Loving Kindness ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Compassion Meditation ◽  
Health Organization

Mind-body practices that intentionally generate positive emotion could improve health professionals’ well-being and compassion. However, the feasibility and impact of clinician training in these practices is unknown. Data were analyzed from 3 online modules offered to health professionals: ( a) Gratitude, ( b) Positive Word, and ( c) Loving-kindness/Compassion meditation. Paired t tests were used to assess pre- to posttraining changes in gratitude (Gratitude Questionnaire), well-being (World Health Organization Well-Being Index), self-compassion (Neff’s Self-Compassion Scale), and confidence in providing compassionate care (Confidence in Providing Calm, Compassionate Care Scale). The 177 enrollees included diverse practitioners (nurses, physicians, social workers, and others). Training was associated with statistically significant improvements in gratitude (38.3 ± 4.6 to 39.5 ± 3.3), well-being (16.4 ± 4.0 to 17.9 ± 4.2), self-compassion (39.5 ± 8.1 to 43.1 ± 7.6), and confidence in providing compassionate care (73.3 ± 16.4 to 80.9 ± 13.8; P < .001 for all comparisons). Brief, online training appeals to diverse health professionals and improves their gratitude, well-being, self-compassion, and confidence in providing compassionate care.

scholarly journals How to do a systematic literature review

2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Papadopoulos ◽  
P. Rheeder
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Making Choices

Physiotherapists, whether serving individual patients or populations, always have to sought to base their decisions and actions on the best possible evidence. In making choices, health professionals may benefit from structured summaries of the options and outcomes, systematic reviews of the evidence and recommendations regarding the best choices. The aim of this paper is to present guidelines on how to conduct a systematic review. The structure and content of a systematic review are being discussed, following a step-by-step approach.

scholarly journals Post-Graduate Training and Professional Development: Exploring the Nexus Between Self Compassion and Compassion Fatigue Among Mental Health Clinicians Working With Trauma Survivors

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Arkadie ◽  
Allen E. Lipscomb
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Mental Health Clinicians ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Self Compassion

Mental health clinicians who work with clients who have experienced severe trauma are at greater risk of developing compassion fatigue. Limited prior research investigated the relationship between self-compassion and compassion fatigue. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to assess the relationships of self-compassion and duration of professional service to compassion fatigue among licensed mental health clinicians who worked with clients that have experienced trauma in southern California. Two research questions asked whether self-compassion and duration of professional service were significantly related to compassion fatigue. The researcher collected primary data for the variables of interest via an online survey using two validated instruments, SCS-SF and ProQOL-Version 5. The study was conducted with a convenience sample of (n = 67) licensed mental health clinicians who resided in southern California. The results of non-parametric Kendall’s tau-b correlations revealed a significant inverse correlation between self-compassion and compassion fatigue, τb = -0.273, p = .002. The correlation between duration of professional service and compassion fatigue was nonsignificant, τb = -0.104, p = .299. These results are vital and relevant to the field as they justify further research, training and professional development in this area, leading to the development of clinical interventions that are needed to mitigate compassion fatigue symptoms among this population.

scholarly journals Guidelines for using antimicrobials in veterinary surgery

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
J. L. P. Silva ◽  
B. G. Castro ◽  
D. Faria Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Multiresistant Strains

The indiscriminate use of antimicrobials in clinical and surgical routine is an upward reality among veterinarians. The emergence of multiresistant strains is one of the consequences of the irrational use of these drugs, causing an emergency worldwide health problem. By 2050, it is estimated that superbugs will kill about 10 million people worldwide, more than cancer. This paper aims to conduct a literature review on the topic and raise awareness of health professionals about the importance of rationality in the act of choosing the antimicrobial to be used, as well as assess the need or not to use them

scholarly journals Harm reduction in primary healthcare: an integrative review of care strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayana Santos Arêa Soares ◽  
Márcia Astrês Fernandes ◽  
Hellany Karolliny Pinho Ribeiro ◽  
Daniel de Macêdo Rocha ◽  
Ítalo Arão Pereira Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Drug Consumption ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Safe Practice ◽  
Opioid Agonists ◽  
Free Care

Abstract Objective: To analyze the evidence available in the literature on harm reduction actions developed by primary healthcare. Method: Integrative literature review carried out in the databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Web of ScienceTM and LILACS. Results: Seventeen (17) primary studies published from 2008 to 2017 were included in this review. Care strategies for harm reduction included maintenance treatment with methadone, therapy with opioid agonists, needle and syringe distribution programs and the creation of rooms for supervised drug consumption. Health professionals were essential for consolidating inclusion strategies, possessing skills to listen without judgment and prejudice. Conclusion: Harm reduction care strategies have been disseminated in different countries and healthcare levels, aiming toward safe practice and quality, effective and risk-free care actions.

scholarly journals Genetics/genomics education for nongenetic health professionals: a systematic literature review

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 725-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Talwar ◽  
Tung-Sung Tseng ◽  
Margaret Foster ◽  
Lei Xu ◽  
Lei-Shih Chen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Genomics Education

The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion Between Mindfulness and Compassion Fatigue Among Therapists in Hong Kong

Mindfulness ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 460-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindy Y. C. Yip ◽  
Winnie W. S. Mak ◽  
Floria H. N. Chio ◽  
Rita W. Law
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Self Compassion

Self-care for health professionals

2019 ◽  
pp. 835-842
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Intractable Pain ◽  
Personal Anxiety

This chapter covers theory of palliative care issues associated with caring for people who are dying and the particular stresses involved. Sources of stress are multiple, may be accumulative, and are linked to all areas of an individual’s life. Working with dying people may be stressful, particularly if staff experience personal bereavement and loss. Such work can put staff in touch with personal anxiety about loss and death. Palliative care staff also find it very stressful to deal with patients who experience intractable pain, those who have young children, and those patients who are afraid to die. Symptoms that leave nurses feeling helpless, useless, and impotent are the most stressful to deal with, as is dealing with distressed relatives. The chapter looks at strategies for supporting a workforce involved in the ongoing delivery of palliative care to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue.

Health Professionals' Communication Competences as a Light on the Patient Pathway

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Cristina Vaz de Almeida ◽  
Célia Belim
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Patient Pathway ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Three Factor

This article proposes a three-factor model of communication competencies inspired in literature review and evaluated and completed by Portuguese health specialists with expertise on health literacy, who were organized into four focus groups (n=25). The study includes a response to the lack of consensus in the literature as to what specific and operative competencies the health professional should perform in clinical encounters with the patients. All the participants in the focus group agreed and reinforced that an aggregated and interdependent model, which is composed of assertiveness, clarity of language, and positivity (ACP model), can be an effective health communication model.

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