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Credit: Getty Images. A study sought to determine if mindfulness-based stress reduction would ease compassion fatigue and burnout among the facility’s pediatric oncology nurses. A mindfulness-based ...

When the novel coronavirus began wreaking havoc last year, nurse practitioner Erica Joseph would trudge home from an arduous workday feeling exhausted and mentally spent. Joseph would then have to ...

“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 ...

Researchers sought to analyze the rate of burnout in practicing nurse practitioners by looking at contributing factors that play a role in compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. Nurse ...

People whose professions lead to prolonged exposure to other people's trauma can be vulnerable to compassion fatigue, also known as secondary or vicarious trauma; they can experience acute symptoms ...

Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

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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 ...