WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Trauma nurses handle everything from gunshot wounds to stabbings to other critical assault injuries, and some say it can be hard to fight what's called "compassion fatigue." WJLA's ...

Mounting gun violence in Chicago has led physicians and nurses to experience “compassion fatigue,” a mixture of burnout and traumatic stress in which caretakers become numb to and attempt to distance ...

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“Almost that fraternity mentality. ‘If I have to do it, you have to do it,'” Ms. Burke told Becker’s in a recent interview. Today, she is an associate clinical professor and director of pre-licensure ...

OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the degree of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue (CF) among critical care, oncology and charge nurses. BACKGROUND:Cumulative grief resulting ...

Compassion fatigue can be physical, emotional, or spiritual exhaustion that overtakes the otherwise positive and fulfilling experience of helping others when we over-empathize (Figley, 2002a). Often ...

We thank those who help and care for others. Who will help them? Medical staff—including doctors, nurses, midwives, veterinarians, and their accompanying colleagues—deal daily with the ecstasies and ...

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After serving in the Vietnam War, Charles Figley became interested in the concept of trauma—not only the lasting psychological wounds that people experienced after living through traumatic events ...

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Sometimes, even professionally compassionate people get tired. Kristin Laurel, a flight nurse from Waconia, Minn., has worked in trauma units for over two decades. The daily exposure to distressing ...