Compassion fatigue

nursing has many benefits, nurses can experience a common condition called “compassion fatigue.” According to Black (2014), she defines compassion fatigue as “a condition in which one experiences loss of physical energy, burnout, accident proneness, emotional breakdowns, apathy, indifference, poor judgement, and disinterest in introspection (2014, p. 215). Compassion fatigue is an important issue in nursing. Compassion fatigue can directly affect the nurse’s ability to deliver optimal care.…

needs of others before your own. However, one very important question is oftentimes overlooked or never asked at all. Who takes care of the care giver? In, “We grieve too: One Inpatient Oncology Unit’s Interventions for Recognizing and Combating Compassion Fatigue”, this very question is addressed. The setting of this article is at the Lancaster General Hospital Oncology ward. The hospital houses 540 beds and is magnet-designated. Their employment turnover rate went from 5.5 % in 2009 and…

For the sake of this essay, I will refer to him as Pastor Sweet. Pastor Sweet embodied the ten characteristics identified earlier in this essay. However, as I learned the meaning of compassion and servant-leadership, I understand why he was driven to show empathy for others as well as help them end their suffering. As the leader of our church, he was concerned for the needs of his parishioners. Pastor Sweet started many outreach programs…

Chapter Five Five Strategies to Combat Compassion Fatigue The fifth chapter is the final presentation of the thesis projects conveying five approaches to combat the negative symptoms and signs of compassion fatigue. The action steps are suggestive tools to slow down or counteract the process of stress or burning out in spiritual leaders and persons who provide care. The strategies will seek to provide a framework for both understanding and, optimistically, inoculating against potential stress…

Professional burnout, or simply burnout, is a state of physical, psychological, emotional, and/or spiritual fatigue. Burnout is a process which occurs cumulatively over time with contributing factors related to the individual, populations served, and the organization (Newell & Nelson-Gardell, 2014). Professionals who are highly motivated, idealistic, and highly empathic are at greater risk for burnout. This can be the caused by two reasons. First, the lack of clear boundaries as to what their…

support of the research being conducted or by mitigating the description by omitting characteristics of the concept. For example, both definitions of Compassion Fatigue (The Oxford Dictionary of English n.d. , Dictionary.com n.d.) indicate a principle of causation (cause and effect). The effect or dependent variable is the individual’s response (Compassion…

research into compassion is less prevalent than compassion fatigue (Kagen, 2014). According to Gilbert (2005), compassion can be divided into two parts: 1) a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune and 2) a strong desire to help stop the suffering. The desire to help stop the suffering is what separates compassion from empathy. A plethora of research has identified that compassion is reduced when a person is continuously exposed to compassion…

exploration on the concept of compassion fatigue, in the context of acute care nursing, is to promote a clear, and precise understanding of the phenomena of compassion fatigue in clinical practice, share an exemplar case, discuss antecedents, consequences, and provide empirical evidence. Defining Concept Within a Context Compassion has been thought to be one of the most central components of nursing and thought to be a core characteristic in all nurses (“Compassion Fatigue,” 2014). Recent…

Nurses at Tuality Home health show compassion in a variety of ways. One way nurses show compassion is by following up with patients about care needs. For example there was a patient whose wife died recently and a nurse wanted to check with the family to see how they were doing. The nurse made a point to make a visit…

As the nursing ethics states compassion is an appearance of personal values that healthcare professionals portray through behaviour and therefore presenting an emotional dimension of caring for the service user and showing this through caring for them in a way of recognising and lessen the suffering of the individual.{nursing ethics } This shows how caring for the service user, paramedic practitioners should look at the holistic aspects of the individual in order to help and treat them right,…