87 Assessing Compassion Fatigue Among Emergency Department Professionals

Compassion fatigue and burnout among healthcare professionals in the ICU

Factors that influence the development of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in emergency department nurses.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to determine the prevalence of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in emergency department nurses throughout the United States and (b) to examine which demographic and work-related components affect the development of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in this nursing specialty. DESIGN AND METHODS Th...

Compassion, compassion fatigue, and burnout: key insights for oncology professionals.

When cancer care clinicians become stressed, sad, isolated--and unaware of this--they are placing themselves at risk for burnout and their patients at risk for suboptimal care. Despite their best intentions, clinicians can sink from a healthy work state of compassion, empathy, and well-being into compassion fatigue and burnout. Lessons from first responders demonstrate the importance for clinic...

Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue Among Critical Care Nurses.

BACKGROUND Although critical care nurses gain satisfaction from providing compassionate care to patients and patients' families, the nurses are also at risk for fatigue. The balance between satisfaction and fatigue is considered professional quality of life. OBJECTIVES To establish the prevalence of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in adult, pediatric, and neonatal critical care...

Compassion fatigue and substance use among nurses

Aim This study aimed to detect if there were differences in compassion fatigue (CF) among nurses based on substance use and demographic variables of gender, marital status, type of health institution and income. Background Compassion fatigue is considered an outcome of poorly handled stressful situations in which nurses may respond with self-harming behaviours like substance use. Evidence in ...