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Using Provider Education About Self Care To Reduce Compassion Fatigue Among Nurses, Priscella Caron
Using Provider Education About Self Care To Reduce Compassion Fatigue Among Nurses, Priscella Caron
Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project
Many have scrolled through Facebook and news stories highlighting nurses as “heroes” of the current coronavirus pandemic. Pictures of nurses in personal protective equipment while at work or clips of nurses making fun tiktok video’s celebrating recovered COVID -19 patients. Social media does not capture the sheer emotional, physical, and spiritual wear that nurses experience providing compassionate care to patients facing light threatening illness or events. Health care organizations are under pressure to control cost, increase productivity, and increase patient satisfaction scores, all while facing a pandemic crisis. This type of pressure can create inadequate staffing and increase clinical responsibilities …
A Qualitative Study Of Rural Nurse Practitioners' In Medically Underserved Clinics, Jama J. Bogart
A Qualitative Study Of Rural Nurse Practitioners' In Medically Underserved Clinics, Jama J. Bogart
Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project
Retention of nurse practitioners is a serious problem in rural medically underserved areas. This study focused on the underserved areas in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, and northern Oklahoma. Approximately, three million persons reside in rural medically-underserved areas of the study area. Seventy-three percent of these adults have at least two or more complex chronic medical conditions and there are only 526 nurse practitioners to care for them. Rural providers face many challenges in caring for these individuals and experience anxiety and stress while caring for them. The purpose of this research study was to explore, analyze, and describe the phenomena …