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 ...

Compassion fatigue can lead to burnout and emotional exhaustion, which can cause cynicism, where caregivers “don’t see the purpose in their work. And then that impacts both their professional life and ...

Compassion fatigue is a type of secondary trauma that occurs when a provider experiences distress from their ongoing role in taking care of patients who are suffering. They become emotionally and ...

The explosion of telehealth, remote monitoring, and screen-based charting is leading to digital compassion fatigue for nurses.

For 19 years in a row, Americans continue to rate nurses as being the most honest and ethical of any profession that Gallup regularly asks about. Nurses’ ability to show compassion, no matter who the ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Five months into the coronavirus pandemic in Tennessee, healthcare workers say they are feeling emotionally "burnt out." It's an invisible illness plaguing hospitals during the ...

Notre Dame law students provide free legal advice through immigration clinic Law students at Notre Dame are now providing free legal advice to immigrants in South Bend through a new clinic on ...

Compassion fatigue in health care workers is work-related chronic stress from caring for others. It is secondary stress from exposure to suffering. Burnout is also associated with compassion fatigue.

The last 18 months have been incredibly taxing on the human psyche as we experience the COVID-19 virus, racial tensions, a challenging economy, the recent gas shortage, and isolation. On top of all of ...

Caring for ourselves also means seeking social connections who can provide practical and emotional support to us when we’re struggling. A study of nurses found that belonging to a more cohesive group ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Health care workers around the United States are treating COVID-19 for the sixth month straight. Dr. Chelsia Harris, the executive director of Lipscomb University's School of ...