Practice question
How can I recognise and support staff with compassion fatigue?
Nursing managers should be able to identify symptoms of compassion fatigue and support teams and individual staff to increase and sustain emotional resilience
Nursing managers should be able to identify symptoms of compassion fatigue and support teams and individual staff to increase and sustain emotional resilience
The term compassion fatigue is attributed to the seminal work of Charles Figley, who defined it as ‘the natural consequence of experiencing the trauma of others’ (Figley 1995) .
When humans are exposed to the distress or trauma of others, defined by
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