PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine factors that influenced the nurse's perceived quality of work life and risk for compassion fatigue (CF). The specific aims of the study were to describe the (a) relationship among nurse characteristics and perceived quality of work life, (b) relationship between personal life stress and perceived quality of work life, and (c) the nurse's beliefs about his or her ri...

BACKGROUND Nurses are at risk for symptoms of compassion fatigue (CF) and burnout (BO). Social support plays an important role in predicting CF and BO. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of CF and BO and the role of perceived social support in predicting these symptoms in Iranian nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a correlational descriptive survey research ...

Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2009 • Oncology Nursing Forum E .P., a 34-year-old oncology staff nurse, felt like she was losing control of her life. She felt a sense of dread and fatigue each morning when her alarm went off. How could she make it through one more day trying to balance her family life, her job, and caring for her mother, whose senile dementia was gradually worsening every day? E.P. co...

The residency program for oncology nurses at University of North Carolina Healthcare is comprehensive. New graduate nurses in the inpatient setting undergo 13 weeks of orientation with two primary preceptors on the unit and then meet monthly for four hours of didactic learning and support for the first 12 months. The nurse educators who planned this residency wanted to create a celebration that...

Artists-in-medicine at the University of New Mexico help nurses remember and renew the values that originally attracted them to the field of nursing. Exploring their nascent creativity through massage, yoga, art, music, and writing, nurses are encouraged to reconnect emotionally and spiritually with themselves, their patients, and fellow healthcare workers.

Bu çalışma, çocuk kliniklerinde çalışan hemşirelerin merhamet düzeyi ve yorgunluğunun belirlenmesi amacıyla tanımlayıcı türde çalışılmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemini Konya ilinde bulunan kurum izni alınan kamu, özel üniversite hastanelerinin 192 hemşire oluşturmuştur. verileri Ocak 2019’da toplanmaya başlanmıştır. Veriler “Bilgi Formu”, “Merhamet Ölçeği”, “Çalışanlar İçin Yaşam Kalitesi Ölçeği’...

Social workers are susceptible to mental health problems that could lead to develop burnout symptoms and traumatic stress. This study examined the prevalence of secondary traumatic stress and burnout and its relationship to the job satisfaction in 180 social workers who work in schools, hospitals, welfare centers, and NGOs, in Abu Dhabi (39%) and Alain(61%) cities, (mean age=36.4). The percenta...

Compassionate care is vital to quality palliative and integral the provision of spiritual at end life. But sustaining compassion costly for healthcare providers (HCP), impacting their emotional wellbeing, professional purpose, moral self-image? Concerns about costs carers have gathered pace in a growing literature on fatigue. Critics, however, argue that fatigue lacks adequate conceptualisation...