Credit: Getty Images. A study sought to determine if mindfulness-based stress reduction would ease compassion fatigue and burnout among the facility’s pediatric oncology nurses. A mindfulness-based ...

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Trauma nurses handle everything from gunshot wounds to stabbings to other critical assault injuries, and some say it can be hard to fight what's called "compassion fatigue." WJLA's ...

Mounting gun violence in Chicago has led physicians and nurses to experience “compassion fatigue,” a mixture of burnout and traumatic stress in which caretakers become numb to and attempt to distance ...

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“Almost that fraternity mentality. ‘If I have to do it, you have to do it,'” Ms. Burke told Becker’s in a recent interview. Today, she is an associate clinical professor and director of pre-licensure ...

OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the degree of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue (CF) among critical care, oncology and charge nurses. BACKGROUND:Cumulative grief resulting ...

In the field of palliative of care, there is ever-increasing interest in the concept of compassion fatigue. Related topics include stress, burnout, self-care, and work-life balance. Little attention ...

(NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in states where the delta variant is causing the most damage, it can feel like they’re living in a recurring nightmare. Hospital beds are filling up, intensive care ...

Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

Compassion fatigue can be physical, emotional, or spiritual exhaustion that overtakes the otherwise positive and fulfilling experience of helping others when we over-empathize (Figley, 2002a). Often ...