Dr Alistair Hewison is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Nursing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has undertaken a number of roles including Head of the School of Health Sciences, Head of Nursing and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He has published widely on nursing, management and policy in scholarly journals and book chapters. Yvonne Sawbridge is Senior Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has enjoyed a wide and varied career across all aspects of the NHS. Before joining the University of Birmingham she was Director of Quality and Nursing in a large PCT involved responsibility for a range of portfolios. She has worked closely with practice based commissioners; local authority partners-particularly in the Children's Trust and Adult and Children's Safeguarding Boards and several providers both statutory and third sector, such as local Hospices. She has also presented at numerous conferences to both clinical and managerial audiences.

Exploring the concept of compassion in nursing practice, this book examines compassionate care, the culture of compassion, and its connectedness with quality healthcare … The audience is nurses in all aspects of the profession: education, practice, and research. Compassion in nursing is relevant in nursing curriculum to educate and mentor students … The book is useful to nursing managers exploring a culture rich in compassionate care and meaningful support and advocacy of its nursing professionals.

• Introduction: The Context of Compassion1. Compassion in Care-the Policy Response2. Compassion as a Philosophical and Theological Concept3. Compassion in Nursing: A Concept Analysis4. What Compassion Means: the Person and Family Perspective5. Healthcare Culture and Intelligent Kindness in Practice6. The Components of Compassion7. Improving Patients' Experience: The Point of Care Programme 2007-20148. The Emotional Labour of Nursing9. Managing for Compassion10. Restorative Supervision-Implications for Nursing11. Compassion, Emotional Labour, and Public Service in the United StatesConclusion: What Next for Compassion in Nursing?

Dr Alistair Hewison is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Nursing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has undertaken a number of roles including Head of the School of Health Sciences, Head of Nursing and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He has published widely on nursing, management and policy in scholarly journals and book chapters. Yvonne Sawbridge is Senior Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has enjoyed a wide and varied career across all aspects of the NHS. Before joining the University of Birmingham she was Director of Quality and Nursing in a large PCT involved responsibility for a range of portfolios. She has worked closely with practice based commissioners; local authority partners-particularly in the Children's Trust and Adult and Children's Safeguarding Boards and several providers both statutory and third sector, such as local Hospices. She has also presented at numerous conferences to both clinical and managerial audiences.

Exploring the concept of compassion in nursing practice, this book examines compassionate care, the culture of compassion, and its connectedness with quality healthcare … The audience is nurses in all aspects of the profession: education, practice, and research. Compassion in nursing is relevant in nursing curriculum to educate and mentor students … The book is useful to nursing managers exploring a culture rich in compassionate care and meaningful support and advocacy of its nursing professionals.

• Introduction: The Context of Compassion1. Compassion in Care-the Policy Response2. Compassion as a Philosophical and Theological Concept3. Compassion in Nursing: A Concept Analysis4. What Compassion Means: the Person and Family Perspective5. Healthcare Culture and Intelligent Kindness in Practice6. The Components of Compassion7. Improving Patients' Experience: The Point of Care Programme 2007-20148. The Emotional Labour of Nursing9. Managing for Compassion10. Restorative Supervision-Implications for Nursing11. Compassion, Emotional Labour, and Public Service in the United StatesConclusion: What Next for Compassion in Nursing?