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2018

Secondary traumatic stress

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Nursing Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, And Professional Support: A Case Study, Cheryl R. Sheffield Oct 2018

Nursing Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, And Professional Support: A Case Study, Cheryl R. Sheffield

Nursing Theses and Dissertations

Day-to-day care of patients throughout the continuum of life puts medical surgical nurses at risk for burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS). Due to the unpredictable nature of patient care, current burnout and STS interventions that take the nurse away from the bedside have high attrition rates. A feasibility pilot to test a mobile intervention left many questions unanswered regarding the medical surgical nursing population, burnout, and STS. This multiple case-study was developed to investigate nursing burnout, STS, and support from leadership and membership perspectives within one professional nursing organization. The Nurse as Wounded Healer Theory (NWH) that guided this …


Compassion Fatigue As It Relates To Nurse Turnover In Oncology Nurses At An Urban Hospital, Diana Wells-English Mar 2018

Compassion Fatigue As It Relates To Nurse Turnover In Oncology Nurses At An Urban Hospital, Diana Wells-English

DNP Scholarly Projects

According to Stamm (2010), Compassion fatigue (CF) refers to the negative aspects of caring and compassion satisfaction (CS) refers to the positive aspects. Compassion fatigue is well documented in oncology nurses. It is a concept incorporating both burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS). Nurses working with patients who have cancer are exposed to a multitude of stressors that may contribute to CF and ultimately high turnover rates. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between CS, STS, BO, and turnover intention in a sample of oncology nurses. The study is a correlational study utilizing survey methodology …