Fatigue

Compassion Fatigue Cecily S. Gleason University of North Florida  Compassion Fatigue When compassion is lost, you are left with a drained nurse that no longer has compassion for her patients, their families, their illnesses, their suffering. These same nurses very well may be the best in their field, but once they lose their compassion, they have lost their profession. This is a growing problem in the field of medicine. The loss of compassion is seen significantly more in emotional areas of…

employee turnover rates are resulting in understaffing, which lead to nurses taking on a higher patient load each shift exposing them further to the burdens of handling traumatic situations on a daily basis. These strains can develop into compassion fatigue. Where there is stress there are opportunities for error and these errors put patients at risk. If nurses are not given the resources to care for themselves they are not able to offer the kind of care their patient’s require. Body As…

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. Most…

Discussion The proper diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), or myalgia encephalomyelitis, requires familiarity with the early sings and symptoms of this disease. According to the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (n.d.), the diagnosis of CFS involves several critical elements about the patient’s history, patient’s symptoms patterns, and a complete exclusion of other illness causing fatigue. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders…

Literature Review Compassion fatigue strongly impacts nurses as well as patients throughout healthcare. Awareness is essential among compassion fatigue not only emphasizes the reality of burnout, increased unnecessary stress, negative work environments, lack of leadership support, nursing retention problems, reduced patient satisfaction scores, and financial contingencies specifically patient reimbursements (Kelly, 2015; Hunsaker, 2015; Sacco, 2015; Lachman, 2016). However, positive resolutions…

is called muscle fatigue. 1 L-Carnitine is a compound that makes the increment of the muscle performace. L-Carnitine is found in the entire cell on the body, its function is to change fats to energy and transport the fatty acids to the mitochondria. L-Carnitine increase the fatty acid oxidation to produce more energy and provoke the muscle to less fatigue. The objective of this experiment is to determine the effect of L-Carnitine supplementation on the skeleton muscle after fatigue, the…

school or work, but that tiredness can become debilitating. That is when you know that you are experiencing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).How then, do you spot its signs? Managing this syndrome takes more than getting enough rest because the exhaustion is constant. Consequently, you need strategies that are not so run-of-the-mill. What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? The term 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' is self-explanatory. Another term for it is Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease. It refers…

Treatment For Chronic Fatigue – What Are The Different Approaches Available Summary: Treatment for chronic fatigue is available, but you need to visit the right doctor fo the best results. Treatment for chronic fatigue has different approaches. Main Content: It’s not an easy or simple task to treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as there’s no standard regimen for treatment that may work on every patient. The doctor has to take a different approach for every patient. The medical community is…

program on preventing and treating compassion fatigue in emergency nurses [Electronic version]. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, 35(3), 247-258. Introduction - Emergency Room (ER) nurses risk compassion fatigue due to multiple work environment stressors such as; noise level, patient volume, continuous influx of patients, frequency of patient deaths, witnessing devastating trauma and illness. Compassion fatigue leads to psychological and physical problems resulting in decreased…

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 increased to…