Identifying the risk of compassion fatigue, improving compassion satisfaction and building resilience in emergency medicine
Identifying the risk of compassion fatigue, improving compassion satisfaction and building resilience in emergency medicine
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DOI:
10.1111/1742-6723.12535
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发表时间:
2016-02-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Crowe, Liz
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作者:
Crowe, Liz
Compassion fatigue (CF) is a risk for health professionals working in emergency medicine (EM) because of the pace, expectations, patient load and acuity that confront staff daily. 1, 2 CF can be conceptualised as the emotional, moral and physical distress, which occurs as a consequence of caring and bearing witness to the suffering of others. 3–5 It is the cost of being a caring health professional, as a result of exposure to trauma, distress, frustrations, violence, resuscitations and death of patients in their care. 4, 6, 7 EM staff impacted by CF may still be able to deliver compassion to those they work with, even though the personal toll of this care may be felt physically and emotionally with a reduced ability for self-protection.Compassion fatigue relates to the way an individual feels they are able to interact and engage with patients in a caring nature. Importantly, CF is an inherently different construct to burnout. Burnout is strongly associated with organisational environment, disillusionment, emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment and depersonalisation. 2, 8, 9 CF has more features in common with vicarious or secondary trauma than burnout. 4 A significant feature distinguishing CF from burnout is that burnout usually has a slow and gradual onset, whereas CF may be cumulative in the grief absorbed from caring for patients. Despite this insidious