title: Develop student compassion through service-learning.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Widener School of Nursing, Chester, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity; D004645:Empathy; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D064698:Parish Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*