Compassion within the Nurse Patient Relationship: The Judeo-Christian heritage of the Good Samaritan or the legacy of the compassionate stranger has been cited as a significant factor in the development of nursing and medicine in the U. S. and other countries. Increasingly, however, patients, families, and healthcare professionals describe experiences that demonstrate a lack of compassion. Although frequently found in the literature, the researcher found no clear conceptualization of compassion. Using Schwart- Barcott and Kims (2000) Hybrid Model of Concept Development, an...