Establishing a Guide for Developing Organizational Support in Healthcare Following a Critical or Sentinel Event.

Health professionals require support and recognition to help manage the well-known impact of critical or sentinel events relating to patient care. The potential distress can be magnified or mitigated by the response of the organization and colleagues. However, strategies that are accessible, relevant, and effective in the aftermath of a poor outcome are not well established.

The experience and meaning of compassion and self-compassion for individuals with depression or anxiety.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore the meaning and experiences of compassion and self-compassion for individuals with depression and anxiety.

Design: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) epistemology and methodology were adopted as the study was focused on understanding the meaning and experiences of participants towards self-compassion from existing theory.

Methods: Ten participants were selected based on a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed.