Running head: COMPASSION FATIGUE Compassion Fatigue Amber Norris Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V March 30‚ 2013 Compassion Fatigue “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi‚ Shatter Me The health care industry is made up of nurses‚ doctors‚ and other medical professionals
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Combating Compassion Fatigue Grand Canyon University HLT-310V February 24‚ 2012 Combating Compassion Fatigue Introduction Compassion fatigue is an exhaustion that affects people who meet and accompany patients or attend to people whose history is marked by suffering. Listening day after day to dramatic stories tends to exhaust vital energy of a human being and also causes physical‚ psychological and emotional disturbance (Reese‚ 2009). Compassion fatigue affects people who frequently listen
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Is There Compassion in the Air? Compassion. Hidden agenda. The difference. City dweller Barbara Lazear Ascher‚ in her essay “On Compassion‚” recalls in her own words‚ “a couple of brief encounters with homeless people”. While maintaining a critical tone‚ Ascher utilizes an anecdote‚ a personal experience‚ and appeals to her audience’s ethical values as strategies to fulfill her purpose. Ascher effectively achieves her purpose to convince her audience‚ people inhabiting cities‚ there is a lack
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Alexandria Corcoran Jaren Schroeder English W131 October 17‚ 2012 Cancer Research – A Super Fraud? Is cancer research a super fraud? Is the money being raised by the several cancer organizations being used for good‚ or bad? Does the research the government puts forth really cover what needs to be researched‚ or are they missing something? These are all questions that Mr. Robert Ryan believes he has the answers to. Whether one trusts him or not is one’s own decision. Having only a bachelor degree
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with his opinion. One of those insulted people being Liz Addison. Addison’s claim argues that college is yes‚ much different‚ but in a positive way‚ especially in the community colleges. All together in her one sided- argument‚ she includes several rhetorical devices to persuade‚ inform‚ and emotionally prove her claim. These devices being ethos‚ and pathos‚ gives her a strong foundation and effective argument to the liberal audience she is writing her article to. In the very beginning of Liz Addison’s
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uses statistical data and refers to experts such as a Princeton criminologist and a former Supreme Court justice in order to further convince his audience. He makes an appeal to emotion by mentioning rape cases within prisons. Through effective rhetorical strategy‚ Jacoby argues that imprisonment contains too many flaws to be used in the American criminal justice system‚ and suggests flogging as an alternative. Jacoby uses ethos within his essay by displaying a conservative yet credible persona
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Silvia Torres Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – Rhetorical Analysis Outline: I. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in which she took the opportunity to note that in the 15 years since the Fourth Worlds Conference on Women held in Beijing a lot of progress had been made by women worldwide to help provide all women with more opportunities. Nonetheless‚ just because advancement
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Unity and World Peace After the Vietnam War‚ Americans had become annoyed and conflicted on the subjects of war‚ as well as their government. The American culture was changing as people began to realize how ‘dishonest’ and ‘untrustworthy’ some of our politicians had become. During this period society’s faults and weaknesses also became more apparent. In the midst of this changing environment‚ in 1960‚ John F. Kennedy was elected. On January 20th‚ 1961 John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the president
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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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My Blessings My family unit at home is my Father‚ Mother and two older brothers. My earliest memories begin with each of them by my side and I do not know life without them. There have been times in my life that I have made mistakes‚ times in which I had no friends to confide in‚ times in which I did not believe in myself and times in which I was scared. Throughout these times my family has been there to pick me up‚ be my best friend‚ believe in me and give me courage. Reflecting on this topic I
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