Tyler | Compassion | March 11/13 | A compass is a navigational tool used to guide its user in a desired direction. It has four directions; east‚ west‚ north and south. A moral compass‚ which I have recently learned‚ is also used to guide its user in a desired direction. A moral compass‚ when used‚ will provide its user moral focus as the user learns to lead in an ever more challenging and demanding world throughout their life and career. A good leader needs a moral compass that
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Compassion fatigue is an occupational hazard in nursing and has been found to have an influence on job satisfaction. Despite decades of research‚ compassion fatigue continues to be an area of concern in health care because of its detrimental effects. This study was conducted to (a) examine the contributing factors associated with compassion fatigue among acute care nurses in hospital-based settings and (b) determine acute care nurse’s compassion satisfaction in an effort to lower staff turnover.
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A CRIME OF COMPASSION This woman is not a murderer. Barbara Huttmann is a long time nurse who gave a man named Mac his wish to just die and not continue to suffer. Mac had terminal cancer‚ was on loads of pain medication that wasn’t working and at a hospital where the policy was to resuscitate any patient that stopped breathing. But he begged her to stop them from resuscitating him and so she did. What Huttmann did was not wrong. Mac had the right to die with dignity
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requirements and duties that they become fatigue compassionately fatigue. Compassion fatigue is described as the final result of a progressive and cumulative process that is caused by prolonged‚ continuous‚ and intense contact with patients‚ the use of self‚ and exposure to health (Coetzee & Klopper 2010). There are ways to try and prevent this such as recognizing warning signs or problems and maintaining good health. Compassion fatigue is something that affects the care a nurse gives and shouldn’t
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Barbara‚ a nurse‚ is accused of “murder”‚ by the audience of a TV show named the Phil Donahue show. She had a patient‚ named Mac‚ who had lung cancer and was resuscitate 52 times. It was between the years of 1970s and 80s‚ and the law of how many times someone should be resuscitated have not passed yet. Barbara injected Mac with pain medication and did not press the code button until after he was dead. Now after being resuscitated for that amount of time you could only imagine his pain and stress
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Barbara Bergmann Barbara Bergmann is a forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality‚ especially relating to discrimination on account of race or sex. Barbara R. Bergmann writes on economic and social policy‚ with recent works on Social Security‚ child care‚ poverty‚ women’s place in the economy and the family‚ and the labor market problems of women and African Americans. She is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and at American University
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but when I read "A crime of Compassion"� by Huttmann ‚ I changed my mind. A terminally ill ends a life of a person who suffered for 6 months and was resuscitated fifty two times in one month. Terminally ill should be a reason to accept whether the person wants to be alive or just die and stop suffering. Only the patient must have right to decide about his own life not even his family has the right to decide for him. Mac was a patient in the story "A crime for compassion"� who wanted to die and stop
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• Compassion o Definition according to Miriam-Webster: Compassion is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” This definition reveals that to be compassionate‚ you must first be conscious to other’s suffering around you. If you have compassion‚ the observations you make then evoke a desire within you to not just leave someone in distress‚ but to do something to change their situation. o Definitions of compassion in nursing care: Compassion is a
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Compassion fatigue‚ also known as secondary traumatic stress (STS)‚ is a condition of gradual lessening of compassion over time (Sabo‚ 2011). It is common among individuals who work directly with victims of trauma like nurses‚ psychologists‚ physicians‚ cancer-care providers‚ emergency room personnel‚ chaplains‚ and other healthcare professionals. Nurses intend to provide compassionate and empathetic care to patients but become victims of continuous stress while meeting the needs of the clients and
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worldwide catastrophe‚ where most of humankind is dead‚ and the ones that remain are immoral. The world Cormac McCarthy depicts is so awful that even a tiny hint of kindness seems heroic. Compassion looms throughout the novel‚ and is something that is not necessary but given. McCarthy frequently associates compassion with the boy. Because the boy is so naïve‚ we see that his kindness comes from his innocence and goodness of his heart. Because the boy was born in the middle of whatever catastrophic event
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