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Defining A Person: The Nurse At Risk For Compassion Fatigue, Ellen Johnston
Defining A Person: The Nurse At Risk For Compassion Fatigue, Ellen Johnston
Honors Undergraduate Theses
The intent of this thesis was to examine compassion fatigue in nurses through analysis of research studies conducted within the past five years in an effort to identify predisposing factors to the experience of compassion fatigue. Individual and institutional factors were identified as well as current strategies to assist with management of compassion fatigue. Findings indicated that being new to practice, having a trait negative affect, being younger in age, having a history of exposure to trauma and working in high emotionally stressful units predisposed individuals to the experience of compassion fatigue. Institutional factors included a lack of managerial support, …