The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) designed the 6C’s to create vision and strategy with a difference for all areas within the nursing spectrum. This assignment is going to explore what is meant by one of the CNO’s 6 C’s (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2014 (NMC). All of the 6C’s are equally important to enhance and ensure high quality care for patients but for the purpose of this essay compassion will be explored in detail.
Compassion is the essence of caring, and therefore, is the essence of nursing (Chambers and Ryder 2009). It is very difficult to obtain a clear meaning for the word “compassion” because there are so many definitions. However, one definition is acting in a way that you would