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👩‍⚕️ Nursing role: By modelling compassion, nurse leaders inspire teams, strengthen workplace culture, and promote high-quality, person-centred care.

⚠️ Challenges: Compassion fatigue and perceptions of leniency can occur. Balancing compassion with assertiveness and self-care protects leaders’ wellbeing and effectiveness.

🧭 Principles: Core qualities include empathy, active listening, and advocacy. By recognising staff challenges and responding with care, leaders create a culture of trust and openness.

🌟 Impact: Compassionate leaders build stronger, more resilient teams, improving staff morale, retention, and patient outcomes through understanding, respect, and shared purpose.

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Compassionate leadership places empathy, support, and care at the centre of nursing - fostering trust, wellbeing, and collaboration within teams.

Brian Webster and Geoffrey Walker OBE explore how compassionate leadership transforms nursing practice, creating psychologically safe environments where staff and patients thrive.

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👩‍⚕️ Nursing role: Ethical awareness empowers nurses to uphold professional duties such as consent, confidentiality, and advocacy, building trust and accountability in all clinical situations.

💡 Application: Nurses must apply discretion when principles conflict, prioritising patient safety, dignity, and equality in care delivery.

🩺 Principles: The four duties — beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice — form the foundation of ethical nursing, balancing doing good, avoiding harm, respecting choice, and treating people fairly.

⚖️ Impact: Understanding duty-based ethics helps nurses act with integrity, ensuring fairness, respect, and moral consistency in patient care.

Peter Ellis and Hannah Ellis explore how duty-based theories, including Beauchamp and Childress’s four-principles approach, guide ethical decision-making in healthcare: ow.ly/EknA50XaCZ2

Duty-based ethics (or deontology) focus on whether actions are right or wrong, regardless of their outcomes.

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👩‍⚕️ Nursing role: Nurses are crucial in patient education, monitoring for complications, and promoting healthy lifestyle choices to prevent recurrence and improve long-term outcomes.

💡 Management: Mild cases focus on dietary adjustments and fibre intake to improve bowel health, while diverticulitis may require antibiotics or surgery. High-fibre foods like cereals and fruit are protective, though patients with IBS-like symptoms may need tailored guidance.

🩺 Causes: Ageing, low-fibre diets, obesity, and use of NSAIDs are key risk factors. Western diets high in processed foods and red meat are particularly linked to rising incidence rates.

⚖️ Impact: While often asymptomatic, diverticular disease can lead to serious complications such as abscesses, perforation, or bowel obstruction, increasing hospital admissions and healthcare costs.

Elissa Bradshaw explores how nurses can support diagnosis, management, and prevention through diet, lifestyle, and patient education.

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Diverticular disease, or diverticulosis, occurs when small pouches (diverticula) form in the bowel wall - most often without symptoms, but sometimes leading to pain, inflammation, or infection known as diverticulitis.

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💖 The Power of Self-Compassion: Jan Macfarlane explores how self-compassion can enhance nurses’ wellbeing, reduce stress, and prevent burnout by promoting kindness towards oneself.

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📚 Conducting a literature review doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Dr Dilla Davis outlines ten clear steps to conduct thorough, well-organised literature reviews with academic rigour.

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🎓 Dyslexia can present unique challenges in nursing education and practice. Sarah Butler shares her personal journey of navigating nursing with dyslexia, offering practical insights and encouragement for others in the profession.

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⚖️ Ethical decision-making is central to safe and compassionate nursing practice. Peter Ellis and Hannah Ellis explore the principles of biomedical ethics, focusing on the duty-based approach developed by Beauchamp and Childress.

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