Developments in Nursing Care

Running Head: DEVELOPMENTS IN NURSING CARE
Development in Nursing Care
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Developments in Nursing Care
Executive Summary
Nursing is a vital profession, especially the critical nurses where they deal with families
and patients with critical circumstances that are demanding and traumatic. Many nurses in
critical care unit play a leading towards helping patients in critical conditions. Nonetheless, there
are many cases of compassion fatigue (CF) because of the environment that they operate because
of stress and burnout. This has continued to affect their productivity towards providing high
quality and safe care to patients. Additionally, the effects and the symptoms of compassion
fatigue may considerably influence the job of critical care nurse is anticipated to perform. This
report will provide an overview of changes that has influenced the critical care nursing from the
perspective of compassion fatigue, the evidence of analysis of observation in critical care area,
and current compassionate culture. Finally, the report will provide a recommendation for an
appropriate project to improve compassion satisfaction and human flourishing.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Attributes.........................................................................................................................................4
Practice Changes..........................................................................................................................5
Continuous Learning................................................................................................................5
Open Communication...............................................................................................................6
Enabling Factors..............................................................................................................................7
Consequences..................................................................................................................................9
Improving Compassion Satisfaction in Workplace Culture......................................................10
Creative Supportive Environment..........................................................................................10
Teamwork...............................................................................................................................10
Self-Care.................................................................................................................................11
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................11
Conclusions....................................................................................................................................12

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References......................................................................................................................................14
Introduction
The nursing profession has been described by several researchers as a mixed art of
nurturing, as well as caring. Globally, nurses merge their practical skills and knowledge with
their everyday relations with patients along with their households to fashion a therapeutic
atmosphere. The nursing profession is a unique, as well as special occupation that has also
several problems. They provide holistic care to patients in critical states via skilled interventions
and compassionate nursing. Critical care nurses regularly care for families along with patients in
moments of grief and crisis and in many instances utilize “self” as a therapeutic instrument to
help in treatment. In addition, the growing difficulty of reforms in healthcare setting plus
organization of the labour force has declined fulfilment for critical care nurses that are facing the
load of providing high-class results for the patient (Clifford, 2014). Particularly in critical care
units, the critical care nurses are often compounded with tricky circumstances where they are
asked to offer emotional support along with comfort the patients plus their families facing
considerable emotional, as well as physical suffering. Consistent empathy together with
“feeling” of another individual’s distress, pain, as well as sorrow may result in compassion
fatigue (CF).
Attributes
The CF has been defined as a condition of psychological or physical suffering in care
providers that takes place as a result of continuous, as well as growing process in stressful or
demanding environments with needy persons, especially in critical care units. Compassion