BACKGROUND Violence is frequent towards nurses in forensic mental health hospitals. Implications of this high risk environment have not been systematically explored. This paper explores occurrence of symptoms on post traumatic stress and their relationship to professional quality of life. METHODS Self report questionnaires assessing symptoms of post traumatic stress and professional quality o...

A : When I started working in health care, practitioner well-being was not something that received much attention, and I knew little about it. After several years as a crisis counsellor, working with clients in high-trauma situations, I found that my relationship to my work was changing: I was feeling less empathy, more irritation toward my colleagues and constant anger about budget cuts and in...

For graduate medical education trainees, as well as contemporary practitioners, developing skills in recognizing compassion fatigue and practising self-care is vital to professional sustainability. The field of palliative medicine is no exception. In our fellowship programme, we use John Stone's poem, 'Talking to the Family,' to engage trainees in a professional development workshop on personal...

From Compassion Fatigue to Resilience: Children’s Hospital Colorado Kelly Johnson, MSN, RN, CRRN, NEA-BC/Dr Dori Biester Chair in Pediatric Care Services; Chris Griffin RN, BSN, CPN Background: Healthcare is a stressful profession. The executives at Children’s Hospital Colorado are well aware of the affects that caring for sick children and the pressure associated with it have on our entire sta...

This study was done to determine the level of conscience perception and compassion fatigue among nurses who worked at pandemic clinics. conducted with 172 a clinic city hospital. To collect data; “personal information request form”, “perceptions questionnaire”, “compassion fatigue-short scale” were employed. analyze percentage, averages, t test, one way variance correlation analysis used. 70.9%...

Persons with mental illness feel symptoms like depression, anxiety, or fatigue. It is important for them to decrease and increase well-being. The present study investigated efficacy of mindfulness yoga on mood self-compassion persons illness. Participants were who lived in a community. Thirteen participants received once practice 60 hours welfare facility. They completed POMS 2 (Profile Mood Sc...