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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In Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed‚ Ehrenreich explores the dynamics of social stratification by gender in working class America. Similarly to race‚ Ehrenreich shows how gender and gender roles are a part of a closed system in the American workforce. One can first see this early on in the book when Ehrenreich works as a waitress. Ehrenreich describes a dynamic in this work setting in which female workers are subservient to a dominant male manager who is very critical. She mainly shows
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to pleas her husband. In this humorous essay she is expressing her and other women’s feelings about how there husbands treating them and the chores that there husbands make them perform. The second writing is a poem called "The faithful wife" by Barbara L. Greenberg. This poem As the matter of fact I would like to have a wife myself if that’s what a women’s duties are to be born to make her husband feel and enjoy life‚ however I am not a male and I disagree 100% with the things that a women should
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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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In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver one of the main characters named Estevan says “We believe that if something terrible happens to someone‚ they must have done something to deserve it.” The author of the novel wrote it the complete opposite of what Estevan says‚ meaning bad things happen to good people and good thing happen to bad people. That it doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad‚ bad things still happen to good people and vice versa. Esteven is right‚ that we as Americans believe
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Compassion in action……caring matter If love not seen with compassion is like humanity without morality. Compassion is not just something that can be sold or bought. Compassion is ones act of kindness that touches ones heart without the slight gentle touch of ones bare hands but with a single touch of someone’s hand directly to your heart. Compassion is a sympathetic pity and concern for the actual sufferings or the misfortune of others. In all honesty‚ Compassion is a common used word that forces
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What stood out to me in Chapter 6 was the chunking section on pg. 209. I am currently reading a book called "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley; it is a book primarily about how to study math and science‚ however‚ I am see that the techniques could be applied to the arts or just about any other subject. Chapters 4 and 7 primarily focus on how to chunk. The main concepts of the book are primarily about how memory works and how to make it work for you. It explains the concepts of spaced repetition
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Writing Review - High Tide In Tucson In High Tide In Tucson‚ Barbara Kingsolver touches on many aspects of living and the nuances that make life worth living. Her series of essays depict many situations found in life with a new light of clarity. In her essays‚ she is able to draw from her experiences to teach others the many life lessons that she has learned. Since all the essays involve narratives in her eyes‚ the reader is able to grasp the personal aspect and to feel as if they too have had the
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Running head: 4 MAT REVIEW‚ GOTTMAN 1 4 MAT Review of‚ “The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work” by John Gottman and Nan Silver Barbara Perry Liberty University 602-D03‚ S. McCreary Running head: 4 MAT REVIEW‚ GOTTMAN 2 “The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work” by John Gottman and Nan Silver Summary In this book‚ Gottman
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In my opinion‚ I feel that the author of “Nickel and Dimed”‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ had ethical intentions when making the decision to investigate “poverty” by emerging herself in the “low-wage lifestyle”. The ethical concern‚ however‚ is with her approach. I feel that the way in which it was conducted could be viewed as degrading to those who do not have an alternative to this way of living. True‚ hopeless poverty does not have those “reassuring limits” that Ehrenreich had the ability
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