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Commentary: Are Emergency Nurses Sbirt-Ready To Assist Vets And Other Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Patients?, Dorothy J. Moore, Danette K. Dutra

DNP Forum

Emergency Department (ED) Registered Nurses (RNs) spend significant time treating chronic pain patients. Chronic pain affects up to 100 million Americans (Simon, 2012) and as much as 30% of all opioid pain medications in the United States (US) are prescribed from EDs (Todd, Cowan, Kelly, & Homel, 2010). Abuse of these prescription drugs is America’s fastest growing drug problem (Paulozzi, Jones, Mack, & Rudd, 2011). For veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation New Dawn (OND), chronic non-cancer pain is the most frequent diagnosis (Higgins et al., 2014), and it is closely associated addiction disease. …

Compassion Satisfaction And Compassion Fatigue Among Critical Care Nurses, Tara L. Sacco, Susan M. Ciurzynski, Megan Elizabeth Harvey, Gail L. Ingersoll

Nursing Faculty/Staff Publications

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 nurses and to describe potential contributing demographic, unit, and organizational characteristics.

METHODS In a cross-sectional design, nurses were surveyed by using a demographic questionnaire and the Professional Quality of Life Scale to measure levels of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction.

RESULTS Nurses (n = 221) reported …