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Reducing Compassion Fatigue In Hospice Nurses Through Education, Gregory Daniel Friesz
Reducing Compassion Fatigue In Hospice Nurses Through Education, Gregory Daniel Friesz
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Compassion fatigue is a secondary stress reaction that results from providing care to those undergoing traumatic life events. Frequent exposure to dying patients with complex medical concerns has been identified as a contributing factor to compassion fatigue and resultant turnover among hospice nurses. The purpose of this project was to assess whether the provision of education to hospice nurses regarding compassion fatigue resulted in a demonstrable improvement in their levels of compassion fatigue. Watson's theory of human caring and Roy's adaptation model provided the theoretical foundation for this project. The practice-focused question for this project asked whether a reduction in …