Papers by Jeanine Young-Mason
Möbius: A Journal for Continuing Education Professionals in Health Sciences, 1987
Clinical nurse specialist CNS, 2017
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2020
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2020
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2019
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2016
THE NATURE OF COMPASSION Compassion can only be understood through action. Compassion, like freed... more THE NATURE OF COMPASSION Compassion can only be understood through action. Compassion, like freedom, is a word whose meaning becomes clearer and finally clarified in practice,when known through desire and need, in hands-on life, so to speak. Also, like freedom, compassion is shown to be a mutual act drawn from interdependence between two or more people who suffer together for its realization. While freedom may seem an individual experience demanding that an individual act his or her way out of passivity, it, in fact, depends on action and reaction from others to be realized or denied. Compassion is also an action and a reaction, an interchange of desires that form a passion inwhich one takes on and gives and another gives and takes on. That action diminishes the isolation and passivity that can exaggerate suffering beyond a human being’s capacity to endure and even psychologically control its passage through his or her body and psyche. This interchange is most profoundly and vividly depicted in works of literature and art that mirror human life in its range of experiences, especially its passions and extreme capacities, its release and suffering, its cravings for freedom and needs of compassion. No textbook can express the simple unselfconscious, monosyllabic cry of pain and joy found in life and echoed in literature, which goes deeper than any theory about humanity can. Thus, literature is a crucial primary source for those concerned about human care, especially for those needing to deepen their understanding of how humans both need and are aroused to give care. It is a mirror that shows both career and cared for sharing in the action of compassion, through their common humanity responding in each.
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2017
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2015
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2016
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2017
WHAT IS COMPASSION? Compassion, like freedom, is a word whose meaning becomes clearer and finally... more WHAT IS COMPASSION? Compassion, like freedom, is a word whose meaning becomes clearer and finally clarified in practice when known through desire and need, in hands-on life, so to speak. Also, like freedom, compassion is shown to be a mutual act drawn from the interdependence between two or more people who suffer together for its realization. While freedom may seem an individual experience demanding that an individual act his or her way out of passivity, it, in fact, depends on action and reaction from others to be realized or denied. Compassion is also an action and a reaction, an interchange of desires that form a passion in which one takes on and gives and another gives and takes on. That action diminishes the isolation and passivity that can exaggerate suffering beyond a human being’s capacity to endure and even psychologically control its passage through his or her body and psyche. This interchange is most profoundly and vividly depicted in works of literature and art, which mirror human life in its range of experiences, especially its passions and extreme capacities, its release and suffering, and its craving for freedomandneedsof compassion.No textbook can express the simple unselfconscious, monosyllabic cry of pain and joy found in life and echoed in literature, which goes deeper than any theory about humanity can. Thus, literature is a crucial primary source for those concerned about human care, especially for those needing to deepen their understanding of howhumans both need and are aroused to give are. It is a mirror that shows both career and cared for sharing in the action of compassion, through their common humanity responding in each.**
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2015
Clinical nurse specialist CNS
Nursing outlook
Joseph Conrad's novella demonstrates the ways in which over-identification with a stranger in... more Joseph Conrad's novella demonstrates the ways in which over-identification with a stranger influences and clouds the critical judgment of a young professional. It provides rich material for discussion on the caution needed by young nurses to make decisions based on critical judgment and not personal feelings.
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2014
Journal of Professional Nursing, 1988
This article discusses the use of a literary work to study the implications of moral behavior whi... more This article discusses the use of a literary work to study the implications of moral behavior which arises in the midst of caring for those who suffer. It introduces Sophocles' tragedy, Philoctetes (one of several literary works used in a senior level course on prevalent and current issues in nursing), as a vehicle by which nursing educators may help students understand moral and ethical decisions. It specifically discusses the ways in which deceitful behavior injures the nurse as well as the patient, and it demonstrates factors that, at times, cause nurses to deceive. Finally, the essay argues for the use of these archetypal guides from ancient literature as viable role models for purposeful, humane behavior of the professional nurse.
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2014
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2006
Throughout his prodigious career as a composer, jazz saxophonist, poet, teacher, witness, and wor... more Throughout his prodigious career as a composer, jazz saxophonist, poet, teacher, witness, and world traveler, Frederick Tillis has touched many lives with his ability to keenly divine and interpret life. As an expressive artist, he has given generously of his talents and time to individuals of all ages in long-term care and hospitals who have little or no access to the arts. Among his many books of poetry that uniquely record his experiences, the poems in Bitter Harvest may resonant most with clinicians. He has said in the Forword ‘‘II believe grace is the gift to reconcile differences between bitter and sweet times. It is the spirit to endure hardships with courage to survive. It gives us the will to ride the turbulent tides of changing season, and imagine how salt sometimes makes the fruit sweeter, and for good reason.’’ In ‘‘Healing Sounds,’’ Tillis captures the essence of music’s mysterious power to healIwhen music lessens spiritual and physical pain. Melodic notes engage as the rubato tempo mimics the rhythms of the human body. The expressive artist creates and performs in response to the listener who resonates to the music and both are graced.
Clinical Nurse Specialist, 1998
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