Publications by authors named "Joel Fakhar"
Health care professionals experience moral distress due to challenging ethical decision-making during patient care. Self-awareness can be associated with moral distress. This study determined the levels of and relationship between moral distress and self-awareness of health care professionals.
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- Research on compassion in nursing has grown, but there's a gap in understanding how students perceive compassion in their training.* -
- A study with 117 nursing students used surveys and interviews to explore their definitions of compassion, finding that most see it as understanding and sharing patients' suffering.* -
- Students emphasized the need for compassionate care to involve understanding patients as whole individuals, and identified ways to develop compassion through practice and reflection.*
Self-awareness is an essential nursing competency and there is limited knowledge about nurses' levels and application of self-awareness and instruments to measure nursing-specific self-awareness. Using mixed methods, we developed and tested a scale to measure nurses' self-awareness. First, 13 nurses were interviewed to understand their meanings of self-awareness and to develop nursing-specific self-awareness scale.
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