Compassion is closely linked with all healthcare professions, but with nursing in particular. This guide unpacks some key ideas around compassion and its relationship with nursing. It therefore makes sense to consider compassion in the context of mental health nursing and the guide deals with this specifically.
There are pressures applied to nursing to be a compassionate activity from the public, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), government policy and within the profession (Ramsay, 2020).