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Combating Compassion Fatigue In The Emergency Department, Pam Packard
Combating Compassion Fatigue In The Emergency Department, Pam Packard
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Combating compassion fatigue in the emergency department is vital to nurses’ well-being. Compassion fatigue is the result of negative physical, emotional, and spiritual strains that often burden nurses. The weight of compassion fatigue is explored throughout this conceptualization of Combating Compassion Fatigue. Two questions were explored: Does compassion fatigue affect compassion satisfaction? If so, is compassion fatigue a precursor to suboptimal compassion satisfaction?
Investigating Compassion Fatigue In Medical-Surgical Nurses, Tammy Darlene Shepherd
Investigating Compassion Fatigue In Medical-Surgical Nurses, Tammy Darlene Shepherd
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
Medical-surgical nurses are consumed by providing care to patients and families and often forget to care for themselves. Compassion fatigue can lead to lack of caring for one’s self in the nurse’s life. The purpose of this thesis was to examine the existence of compassion fatigue among medical-surgical nurses and determine the correlation between the range of years of nursing experience and range of age in years. A review of the literature has identified that nurses should practice self-care to combat compassion fatigue. The theoretical framework was based on Jean Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring. The Professional Quality of Life …
Compassion Fatigue And Burnout Of Critical Care Nurses, Lyndsey Brooke Couch
Compassion Fatigue And Burnout Of Critical Care Nurses, Lyndsey Brooke Couch
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
The purpose of this study was to explore levels of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary post-traumatic stress of critical care nurses. Compassion fatigue is a combination of physical, emotional, and spiritual depletion that caregivers experience when they care for patients who are in physical or emotional distress. Compassion fatigue has affected many nurses and has a direct effect on patients' satisfactions. Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring served as the theoretical framework for this study. The literature shows that there is a prevalence of compassion fatigue of acute care nurses. A quantitative study was performed using the ProQOL …
Compassion Fatigue In Medical Surgical Nurses, Ashlee Nicole Simmons
Compassion Fatigue In Medical Surgical Nurses, Ashlee Nicole Simmons
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
Often nurses are consumed by providing care to others and forget to care for themselves. The lack of self-care can lead to compassion fatigue in the nurse's life. The purpose of this thesis was to assess the level of compassion fatigue within medical surgical nurses, and determine the correlation between years of experience as a registered nurse and compassion fatigue. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL-5) was used to identify the existence of compassion fatigue in medical surgical nurses. Data was collected and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Seventy-five medical surgical nurses working in an acute …
Nurse Workloads: The Relationship Between Nurse Compassion Satisfaction And Burnout, Lisa M. Greene
Nurse Workloads: The Relationship Between Nurse Compassion Satisfaction And Burnout, Lisa M. Greene
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
Nurses face a wide variety of challenges and demands while caring for their patients and families. While nurses are an important part of healthcare, both for their compassion and care and for their skills at the bedside, they can become stressed and burned out. Compassion satisfaction is essential for nurses in today’s society. Compassion satisfaction has been defined as the pleasure an individual derives from being able to help others and do their work to the best of their ability. The lack of compassion satisfaction can lead to compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue affects the care provided to patients. Compassion fatigue …
Rekindling The Passion For Nursing, Susan M. Cannon
Rekindling The Passion For Nursing, Susan M. Cannon
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
Nurses often experience compassion fatigue and burnout when working in stressful environments. Nurses tend to put the needs of their patients above their own needs. It is imperative for the work environment to promote relaxation and restoration, to avert compassion fatigue and nursing burnout. All employees of the project director’s organization were encouraged to attend Caring for the Caregiver Day, a hospital-sponsored event which provided education and promoted self-help interventions aimed to decrease compassion fatigue and burnout. The event included aromatherapy, music therapy, art therapy, pet therapy, massage therapy, and education on compassion fatigue for nurses. In addition, the Progressive …
The Effect Of Art Therapy On Hospice And Palliative Caregivers, Carol E. Gress
The Effect Of Art Therapy On Hospice And Palliative Caregivers, Carol E. Gress
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
A quazi-experimental, one-group, pretest/posttest study was conducted with a group of 25 hospice workers employed by a medium sized county hospice organization in the southeastern United States that was experiencing rapid personnel turn-over. Participants in the study included a doctor, a physician’s assistant, a nurse practitioner, a massage therapist, a grief counselor, a licensed practical nurse, a certified nursing assistant, two clergy, three administrative staff, three social workers, seven volunteers, eight registered nurses and one other. The purpose was to investigate whether attending four 1-hour art therapy sessions could help reduce stress and thereby Burnout. Stamm’s (2010) Professional Quality of …