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 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 ...

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Trauma nurses handle everything from gunshot wounds to stabbings to other critical assault injuries, and some say it can be hard to fight what's called "compassion fatigue." WJLA's ...

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 ...

If you work in a professional setting that deals with other people’s trauma day in and day out — at a hospital, in a psychologist’s office, or at a homeless shelter, for example — you may experience a ...

(NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in states where the Delta variant is causing the most damage, it can feel like they’re living in a recurring nightmare. Hospital beds are filling up, intensive care ...

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 ...

Few would disagree that the prolonged battle against COVID-19 has had a staggering impact on the mental health and well-being of healthcare workers, and in particular, on nurses. In a recent survey of ...

The introduction of vaccines last winter provided a glimmer of hope for health care workers otherwise exhausted by caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients. After months of uncertainty, doctors and ...

(NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in states where the delta variant is causing the most damage, it can feel like they’re living in a recurring nightmare. Hospital beds are filling up, intensive care ...