TY - JOUR T1 - Compassion is an essential component of good nursing care and can be conveyed through the smallest actions JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 95 LP - 95 DO - 10.1136/eb-2014-102025 VL - 18 IS - 3 AU - Katherine Curtis Y1 - 2015/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/18/3/95.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Bramley L, Matiti M. How does it really feel to be in my shoes? Patients’ experiences of compassion within nursing care and their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses. J Clin Nurs 2014;23:2790–9.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedPatients’ experiences of compassion and lack of compassion contribute to current understanding of complexity within compassionate nursing practice.Patients believe that nurses can develop compassionate practice through exposure to vignettes of their experiences.Further research on patient experiences could help identify how to enable ‘fleeting acts’ that convey compassion.Compassion is not a new concept within healthcare.1 However, compassion has become the focus of much research and debate during the past 10 years, following reports of lack of compassion within UK healthcare practice. This recent intense focus has addressed many aspects of … ER -