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    Running head: COMBATING COMPASSION FATIGUE Combating Compassion Fatigue Renee Rundle Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Healthcare HLT-210V Emory Davis August 09‚ 2013 Combating Compassion Fatigue Introduction   Working in the healthcare field‚ especially in nursing‚ is more of a calling than a job‚ in this student ’s opinion. It requires passionate dedication to patients‚ long hours and often means putting the needs of others before oneself. However‚ these things are the very

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    Combating Compassion Fatigue Grand Canyon University: HLT 310-V February 2‚ 2014 Combating Compassion Fatigue Compassion is an essential attribute that nurses must posses in order to provide appropriate care to the patients and families they come in contact with. Nurses work many long shifts taking care of sick patients and grieving families‚ and may not take the time to care for their physical‚ emotional and spiritual needs properly. After a while‚ the long hours and stress may catch

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    Combating Compassion Fatigue Kimberly Tozi Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Healthcare HLT-310V-O101 Dr. Todd Fowler November 17‚ 2013 Combating Compassion Fatigue   These days’ nurses are ‘doing more and more with less resources’. Our profession has been known as being of a co-dependent nature. This nature is not only reflected in our career choice but also frequently in our family management which can place double the stress on the nurse. Demands on nurses can lead to burnout

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    Burnout‚ Compassion Fatigue‚ and Vicarious Traumatization in Caregivers Marissa G. Letz Grand Canyon University Professor Laughlin February 7‚ 2012 Burnout‚ Compassion Fatigue‚ and Vicarious Traumatization in Caregivers A profession in the medical field can be extremely rewarding but sometimes it can be hard on a care takers body‚ mind‚ and spirit. Medical professionals can become burned out which can lead to compassion fatigue or even vicarious traumatization. Compassion fatigue‚ vicarious

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    Combating Caregiver Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Healthcare providers have agreed when entering the healthcare profession to give the utmost care to all patients and families. They have dedicated their time and energy to assure all patients are cared for the way the want and need to be treated. Many endless hours are provided to assure that quality and empathetic care is given‚ which can often end up in what is called compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout. There are warning signs to both

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    LITERATURE REVIEW Compassion fatigue is a more recent concept and has been studied primarily in nonnursing groups. It’s more common among health care workers than those in education or working with children and family issues. In two studies‚ nurses who cared for people affected by the 2004 hurricane season in Florida either in the emergency room or other deployments were found as groups to have low risk of compassion fatigue (Alexander‚ 2006; Frank & Adkinson‚ 2007). In a more recent study

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    Compassion Fatigue Abstract Emerging evidence describes some of the heavy tolls that health professionals experience as they deal with loss of patients‚ traumatic situations‚ supporting families and the overall stress that comes with the nursing profession as a whole. Each patient and family has particular needs (physical‚ psychological‚ social and spiritual) and are deserving of expert care‚ and it is this intensity of need that places nurses at risk of professional compassion fatigue (Melvin

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    forms of health care. According to Katherine A. Hinderer in the article “Burnout‚ Compassion FatigueCompassion Satisfaction‚ and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Trauma Nurses‚” “trauma nursing encompasses the care of a trauma patient through the entire continuum of care.” As a consequence‚ a great number of this nurses suffer from compassion fatiguecompassion satisfaction‚ burnout‚ stress

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    results of the compassion fatigue test. As it relates to this self-assessment the writer will explain what was learned about vicarious trauma. In addition‚ the writer write describe strategies to combat vicarious trauma‚ noting why the writer selected each strategy. Compassion Fatigue Test According to Newell & MacNeil compassion fatigue is a combination of symptoms consisting of secondary trauma and burnout. The scores from the compassion fatigue test reveals the potential for compassion satisfaction

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    Nursing and Health Sciences (2010)‚ 12‚ 235–243 Research Article Compassion fatigue within nursing practice: A concept analysis nhs_526 235..243 Siedine Knobloch Coetzee‚ rn‚ rm‚ bcur‚ mcur‚ phd(c) and Hester C. Klopper‚ rn‚ rm‚ bcur‚ mcur‚ phd‚ mba School of Nursing Science‚ North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus)‚ Potchefstroom‚ South Africa Abstract “Compassion fatigue” was first introduced in relation to the study of burnout among nurses‚ but it was never defined within this context;

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