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 ...

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 ...

In one way or another, we're all caregivers right now during the coronavirus pandemic. For many, shelter-at-home has become a rally cry to care for one's family and, if possible, one's neighbor. The ...

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 ...

Compassion fatigue can be physical, emotional, or spiritual exhaustion that overtakes the otherwise positive and fulfilling experience of helping others when we over-empathize (Figley, 2002a). Often ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in ...