Caretaker Interview 1 April 6‚ 2014 BSHS/445 Caretaker Interview was completed by. As grading is completed and questions arise‚ they can be directed toward via e-mail at. Thank you! Caretaker Interview 2 Interview with Michael is a Case Manager within Spectrum Health hospitals and has been for four years. Michael is twenty-eight years old and enjoys doing his job although he has stated that it can be difficult at times. Michael stated that sometimes there is over time
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Helping Nurses Cope With Grief and Compassion Fatigue: An Educational Intervention There are relationships that are developed between nursing and patients throughout the course of treatment. When patients die‚ nurses tend to experience an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. A survey was designed for nurses who worked in a magnet designed hospital in the northeastern United States. It was stated that most nurses ignore their feelings which can lead to physical‚ emotions‚ and spiritual exhaustion
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I am not new to the terms compassion fatigue‚ burn out and vicarious trauma. I have worked in the healthcare and substance abuse field for many years now. Compassion fatigue‚ burn out and vicarious trauma is covered often in the healthcare and substance abuse field. Compassion Fatigue Compassion fatigue is defined as; “a state experienced by those helping people in distress; it is an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create
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Consequences Compassion fatigue consequences negatively affect nurses through staff turnover due to decreased job satisfaction. Additionally‚ compassion fatigue causes nurses to feel anger‚ anxiety self-doubt‚ depression‚ medical errors‚ exhaustion physically‚ and emotionally. Furthermore‚ negative work environments‚ brings overworked nurses‚ that then turns into decreased patient satisfaction scores‚ and ultimately causes limited reimbursement financial dependence. Lack of leadership or management
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the organization can include a decreased job satisfaction‚ low or no interest in work activities‚ deterioration of the quality of service‚ increased accidents‚ and low job involvement. This burnout prevents nurses from evolving‚ and leads to fatigue. Fatigue causes stress‚ and stress can also lead to many health problems‚ such as hypertension‚ palpitations‚ tachycardia‚ and menstrual alterations. In every hospital‚ there is always going to be nurses who are more prone to burnout than others‚ especially
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Compassion fatigue is not a new concept. As long as individuals have needed help‚ people have come to the rescue. Originally it was identified in social workers‚ as they see sad‚ sometimes devastating situations that they must deal with on a daily basis. In 1992‚ Joinson identified the concept of compassion fatigue in nursing. According to Potter‚ Deshields‚ Divanbeigi‚ Berger‚ Cipriano‚ Norris & Olsen‚ (2010)‚ Joinson identified behaviors that were characteristic of compassion fatigue‚ including
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Health providers suffer from an emotional problem called compassion fatigue. Often times compassion fatigue occurs do to the situations encountered by health care professionals and the pain they feel for the patients they care for. One of the essential components of health care is providing care is compassion Compassion is one of the fundamental characteristics implemented into patient care by health care providers. Compassion signifies “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is
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2‚335 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Framework of Compassion Fatigue University of Texas at Arlington Exploration of Science and Theories for Nursing N5327 Rhonda Mintz-Binder‚ DNP RN CNE September 11‚ 2014 Compassion fatigue‚ which is also known‚ as secondary traumatic stress is a natural effect that occurs as a result of taking care of patients who are in pain‚ stressed‚ suffering‚ or traumatized. Compassion fatigue commonly affects nurses who show extreme empathy for patients
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helping others. They thrive on providing compassion‚ empathy‚ and relationship based patient care. The cost of humans helping humans especially in a time of need is compassion fatigue‚ burnout or a combination of the two. Of the 3.1 million registered nurses in the United States‚ most will experience compassion fatigue or burnout at one point or another throughout their career. (Lombardo & Eyre‚ 2011). Compassion fatigue is defined as an extreme “fatigue that results from caring for those who are
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caring nurses can become victims of the continuing stress of meeting the often overwhelming needs of patients and their families resulting in compassion fatigue (Kim‚ 2013). Boyle (2011) defines compassion fatigue as contemporary label affixed to the concept of personal vicarious exposure to trauma on a regular basis. For health professionals‚ compassion fatigue arises when providers have close interpersonal contact with a suffering patient and their emotional boundaries become blurred to the point
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