内容简介：
Compassion fatigue, particularly afflicting nurses working in the most stressful caring environments, has become a serious issue in health care institutions nationwide. This is the only book to specifically address compassion fatigue by introducing a novel healing model designed to ameliorate compassion fatigue and the resulting consequences of burnout and attrition. This healing plan provides holistic and group strategies-along with action plans-to address compassion fatigue pervading both leadership and staff and to promote a more satisfying work environment. The text describes risk factors for and manifestations of compassion fatigue-vicarious or secondary PTS, death overload, collective trauma, and moral distress-along with strategies to mediate and resolve them. It emphasizes ways in which satisfaction and dissatisfaction influence the quality of patient care and includes a call for nurses to reinvent their work environments so that they are more conducive to satisfaction. Case vignettes and exercises will help readers to identify and alter patterns of negativity and to reaffirm purpose in their professional lives.Key Features: Explores compassion fatigue, a major source for burnout and attrition for nurses in stressful health care environments from critical care/ER to oncology and hospiceOffers holistic self and group strategies, along with action plans, designed to help both leadership and staff nurses overcome compassion fatigue and promote work satisfactionAddresses staff performance and professional quality of life issuesProvides clinical nurse leaders with means to identify and resolve compassion fatigue and related staff issuesDesigned for use by nurses in stressful health care environments, graduate educators, and students