Combating Compassion Fatigue Combating Compassion Fatigue Raynell Giron Grand Canyon University HLT 310V Sep. 29th‚ 2012 Combating Compassion Fatigue This writer will define and identify the keys components to compassion fatigue. This writer will also expound upon the warning signs of compassion fatigue and some interventions that can be put into place by the care giver to help avoid compassion fatigue
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Compassion fatigue is not a new concept. As long as individuals have needed help‚ people have come to the rescue. Originally it was identified in social workers‚ as they see sad‚ sometimes devastating situations that they must deal with on a daily basis. In 1992‚ Joinson identified the concept of compassion fatigue in nursing. According to Potter‚ Deshields‚ Divanbeigi‚ Berger‚ Cipriano‚ Norris & Olsen‚ (2010)‚ Joinson identified behaviors that were characteristic of compassion fatigue‚ including
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emotions allow the audience to viscerally take part in the story and bond with the characters. S. Selina Jamil‚ PhD‚ English professor at Prince George’s Community College‚ is the author of the critical essay entitled “Emotions in THE STORY OF AN HOUR’. This is a scholarly article published in “The Explicator”‚ a quarterly journal of literary‚ in 2009. This article is written as the analysis of a short story written in 1894 entitled‚ “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Choplin. The purpose of the text is
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Compassion As‚ a nurse‚ compassion is critical in my view to be effective in the field of nursing. Compassion encompasses empathy‚ kindness‚ consideration and understanding which will be felt by an individual as one provides care. It requires the delivery of quality care with utmost respect and patience for all individuals irrespective of who they are. The compassion is shown through a nurse- patient relationship which respects the autonomy of patients as individuals who have dignity and worth
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Short Story Analysis In this essay‚ your purpose is to fully explain an element (theme‚ characterization or symbolism) in a short story of your choice. I will provide you with examples of each element from stories by Hemingway‚ Updike and Vonnegut ; you may write about any of these authors except the ones that we have discussed in class. However‚ you may choose to investigate an author of your own choice. Below I have listed some contemporary authors and story collections you may want to
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"good death". It must not be misunderstood to mean simply killing he elderly. The purpose of euthanasia is to relieve the terrible suffering and pain of a terminally ill person with an incurable disease. The cause of euthanasia is compassion. Deadly Compassion There are many ways to euthanize. Some of the more common ways in the recent past: * Suffocation with a plastic bag‚ most of the time (but not all of the time) drugging the patient first. * Gassing them to death with carbon monoxide:
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Can You “Teach” Compassion As nurse educators‚ who could be a better example of teaching compassion to us than the Son of God Himself‚ Jesus Christ? Jesus was the ultimate teacher‚ healer‚ and lover of mankind. Matthew 9:35-39 states: “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages‚ teaching in their synagogues‚ preaching the gospel of the kingdom‚ and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes‚ He was moved with compassion for them‚ because
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Another example of a facet of humanity‚ compassion‚ is in The Road page 90. The quote is "He sat the boy on the footlocker under the gaslamp and with a plastic comb and a pair of scissors he set about cutting his hair. He tried to do a good job and it took some time. When he was done he took the towel from around the boy’s shoulders and he scooped the golden hair from the floor. [….] He cut his own hair but it didnt come out so good. He trimmed his beard with the scissors while a pan of water heated
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view of Concepts: Competence‚ Professionalism‚ and Compassion Abstract There are different views on the concepts of nursing. Nurses can have the same views on nursing concepts as patients do with only slight difference. But overall the concepts of competence‚ professionalism‚ and compassion are viewed very similarly between the nurse and patient interviewed for this paper. Competence plays a key role in the quality of patient care. Compassion is a basis of nursing that expresses empathy towards
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the elitist society that is an integral part of the classical “American dream”‚ one must fully let go of compassion for others and any moral code they may have had. In The Great Gatsby‚ it appears to be impossible for a character to make it in the East Egg’s‚ or for that matter even West Egg’s‚ society if they still feel any genuine emotions of love or concern for others. Greed and compassion simply cannot sustainably coexist within the characters of this novel. Gatsby is a prime example of this
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