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CNA347 Nursing Assignment | Compassion Fatigue

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Practice Enhancement Streams (CNA347)

   

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CNA347 Nursing Assignment | Compassion Fatigue

   

Practice Enhancement Streams (CNA347)

   Added on 2020-05-28

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1Running head: NURSING Nursing Name of student:Name of university:Author note:
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2NURSING Nurses are known to witness tragedies primarily suffered by patients and respectivefamilies. Compassion fatigue is the term given to the concept of explicit personal exposure totrauma on a regular basis. Clarity of the concept is important for better nursing practice andconsecutive patient outcomes. However, the reactions of nurses to such profound distress andloss ave been explored to a limited extent. There lies a gap in literature to understand thenature of compassion fatigue and the interventions that can be implemented for minimisingthe impact of such exposure to adverse events in the care settings (Hunsaker et al. 2015). Ihave grown an interest in understanding the concept of compassion fatigue among nursessicne this topic has drawn my attention as a result of my experiences in clinical placement.During my clinical placement I have seen nurses suffer such fatigue due to which they havedeviated themselves from the path of delivering optimal care. Since I believe increasedknowledge of compassion fatigue would have an impact on my role as a nursing professionalafter completion of the BN degree, I would like to explore the topic more deeply in relation tonursing practice. The present paper aims at discussing the valuable research topic ofcompassion fatigue among nurses and highlighting professional development and researchneeds. Compassion fatigue has a negative impact on the quality of patient care and nursewellbeing. Such stress is linked with poor coping among nurses (Berger et al. 2015).Compassion fatigue is a work-related stress faced by nurses that are to be perceived as a‘cost of caring’ and a chief reason behind the loss of compassion in care delivery. Valuablestudies have measured compassion fatigue with the help of Professional Quality of LifeScale. However, the drawback lies in the fact that this scale does not undertake an assessmentof the elements of compassion. Though research has highlighted that the major risk factorsfor compassion fatigue are job-related factors, and low level of qualification, not much focus
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3NURSING has been given in research to demonstrate that exemplary, compassionate carers are moreprone to ‘compassion fatigue’ (Sinclair et al. 2017).As opined by Nolte et al. (2017) there is an urgent need of research that givesinsight into clinical milieu required for prevention of compassion fatigue. Theoreticalmodels are to be presented through such research that can set the stage for future clinicalpractice policies. There is no denial of the fact that reformed policies are required formitigating the increasing rate of compassion fatigue among nursing professionals. In latertimes, compassion fatigue has been used to describe secondary traumatic stress disordercaused by experiences of trauma in relation to patient caring. The differences andsimilarities between burnout and fatigue have been outlined by the researchers. Both ofthese two situations lead to powerlessness, frustration and reduced morale ensue, and imposeadditional adaptational demands on the professionals. However, they both are distinct interms of three variables: outcomes, chronology and etiologies. Sabery et al. (2017) stated thatthere is a dearth of research highlighting precise and comprehensive tool for measurement ofcompassion fatigue among nurses. The researchers developed a Nurses' Compassion FatigueInventory (NCFI) and evaluated it. The results concluded that NCFI has great validity andreliability. It can be applied in future by nursing researchers and care setting managers withinthe care context. Jakimowics, Perry and Lewis (2017) studied compassion fatigue and satisfactionamong Australian intensive care nurses. The background to the study was the fact thatcompassion fatigue has a major impact on the intention of nurses to leave. The termcompassion fatigue had been first articulated in the context of nurse burnout almost twodecades ago. The term was then used for explaining the loss of the ability to nurture. Thestudy examined the factors contributing to compassion fatigue. It was found that poor level ofeducation on management of stress was the main factor. Multiple environmental stressors,
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