Develop Student Compassion Through Service-Learning

In Brief Compassion is the ability to be sympathetic along with the desire to remedy distress and offer help. The art and science of nursing speaks to the need of having compassion toward those nurses serve, especially when different from the nurse. This article examines the concept of service-learning as a teaching strategy and way of developing compassion in today's nursing students. Compassion is a quality possessed in varying measure by all but we may not recognize or act on it.