Compassion fatigue among nurses working on an adult emergency and urgent care unit.

CONCLUSION: we found compassion fatigue, expressed in the large percentage of nurses with high levels of burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Fatigue is related to individual factors such as age, gender, job experience and leisure activities. Doing research and understanding this phenomenon allow the development of health promotion strategies at work. PMID: 31596410 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem - October 11, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Borges EMDN, Fonseca CINDS, Baptista PCP, Queirós CML, Baldonedo-Mosteiro M, Mosteiro-Diaz MP Tags: Rev Lat Am Enfermagem Source Type: research