Annotated Bibliography: Compassion Fatigue in Nursing

Carroll, D. E. (2017). Compassion Fatigue in Hospice Nursing: A Program Development.

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The article explores on compassion fatigue that nurses experience when exposed to trauma and death cases in Hospice nursing healthcare. Hospice nursing is a significant segment of healthcare since it provides quality care to a patient's end of life. However, the work provided by nurses is difficult since it involves dealing with pain, suffering, and loss of life. As a result, it affects them physically and emotionally leading to low staff satisfaction, high turnover rates and low care quality as well as diminished capacity to enjoy life. Carroll (2017) used a post-program evaluation survey design and targeted 10 Registered Nurses and 2 Licensed Practical Nurses to complete the study. The article is useful as it tries to provide a solution to the underlying problem by providing an educational intervention program to help nurses gain knowledge and understanding of the compassion fatigue.

Febrian, L. (2017). Preventing Compassion Fatigue among Nurses: A Literature Review.

One of the big concepts that almost all nurses have is compassion. However, they are easily exposed to the risk of compassion fatigue leading to decreased productivity. Decreased productivity leads to negative impacts of the safeness and satisfaction of the patient. To solve the issue, the article developed three themes including self-care, social connection and support organization which helped solve the issue and raised awareness among nurses. The article utilized database information such as Pub-Med, OVID, Academic Search Elite and CINAHL in getting reliable and higher quality collections. It also utilized a qualitative study consisting of 20 nurses in different healthcare organizations to measure how different themes can be effective in preventing compassion fatigue. The findings indicated the essence of self-care, social connection and support organization as a way of solving the issue.

van Mol, M. M., Kompanje, E. J., Benoit, D. D., Bakker, J., & Nijkamp, M. D. (2015). The prevalence of compassion fatigue and burnout among healthcare professionals in intensive care units: a systematic review. PloS one, 10(8), e0136955.

The article utilizes a systematic literature review using various database collections to report the prevalence of burnout and compassion fatigue among healthcare nurses working in the intensive care units. Working in a stressful environment like in the ICU, affect the emotional stability of nurses. This may cause most of them to prematurely leave the job in order to preserve their health. As a result, it threatens the life of patients by interfering with their care quality. The findings indicated a wide percentage of 40% from the 14, 770 respondents of nurses that were under compassion fatigue and burnout. Due to this, the article suggests on communication skills, ethical rounds, and mindfulness as a way to intervene with the problem.

Sinclair, S., Raffin-Bouchal, S., Venturato, L., Mijovic-Kondejewski, J., & Smith-MacDonald, L. (2017). Compassion fatigue: A meta-narrative review of the healthcare literature. International journal of nursing studies, 69, 9-24.

The article critically explores the construct of compassion fatigue and distinguishes it as a causative agent of work-related stress in the healthcare. A meta-narrative review was used in carrying out the study. The findings of the article indicated that physical, emotional, social and spiritual instability of nurses was as a result of impaired cumulative stress that was connected to their daily work. As a result, it was found to impact the delivery services of healthcare. Due to compassion fatigue, the article reported some various risks factors such as inadequate qualifications among the healthcare providers, low job-related factors among others. To overcome this, the article recommends an intervention that will help sustain nurses and resolve at the same time the issue of compassion fatigue.

Hunsaker, S., Chen, H. C., Maughan, D., & Heaston, S. (2015). Factors that influence the development of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in emergency department nurses. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(2), 186-194.

The article intends to establish the occurrence of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and burnout in nurses and also look at which demographic and work-related elements impacts their development in the specialty of nurses. The article utilizes a non-experimental, illustrative and predictive research while using a self-administered analysis. The findings indicated that higher degree of burnout and compassion fatigue among healthcare providers were as a result of low level of manager sustain. However, a high degree of compassion satisfaction was a result higher level of manager support. The article suggested that the best way of preventing emotional exhaustion is through enhancing acknowledgment and consciousness of compassion fatigue and burnout hence helping nurses remain empathetic and compassionate people.

Cocker, F., & Joss, N. (2016). Compassion fatigue among healthcare, emergency and community service workers: a systematic review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(6), 618.

A systematic review is carried out in the article to examine some interventions that can lower compassion fatigue in healthcare, emergency and societyservice employees. The focus was taken on service workers especially those that dealt with the disability sector. The article tries to create a healthy environment for nurses especially those that are exposed to traumatic experiences so that they can return to their normal high-functioning behaviors and enable them to master the art of resiliency. The article was useful in providing strategies for reducing compassion fatigue among nurses.

Jack, K. (2017). The meaning of compassion fatigue to student nurses: an interpretive phenomenological study. Journal of Compassionate Health Care, 4(1), 2.

The article investigates on student nurses experiencing compassion fatigue subsequent their first clinical post. Using insightful poems as a basis of data, the study explores their thoughts and feelings about the issue of compassion fatigue and examines the deep connotation of the notion as experienced by the learnersstudents. The findings revealed that students were exposed to compassion fatigue that rendered their well being at risk. To solve the issue, Jack (2017) dwell on creative teaching methods among the students so as to build resilience as a way of coping with the issue.

Vu, F., & Bodenmann, P. (2017). Preventing, managing and treating compassion fatigue. Preventing, managing and treating compassion fatigue, 168(8), 224-231.

Nurses are anticipated to use compassion and sympathy when dealing with traumatized and suffering patients. However, this accompanies nurses with psychological and physical negative impacts that lead to compassion fatigue. The article uses a systematic review of the literature in combating the issue so as to help social organizations and nurses improve their self-awareness. To do this, the article highlights on the importance of debriefings, supervision and adequate equipment of knowledge and skills to deal with the issue. As a result, constraints of the work environment are mitigated giving nurses a conducive environment.

References

Carroll, D. E. (2017). Compassion Fatigue in Hospice Nursing: A Program Development. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1192&context=etd

Cocker, F., & Joss, N. (2016). Compassion fatigue among healthcare, emergency and community service workers: a systematic review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(6), 618. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/6/618/htm

Febrian, L. (2017). Preventing Compassion Fatigue among Nurses: A Literature Review. https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/133943/Febrian_Lita.pdf?sequence=1

Hunsaker, S., Chen, H. C., Maughan, D., & Heaston, S. (2015). Factors that influence the development of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in emergency department nurses. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(2), 186-194. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/071f/280917967e7f082d3d65847df65cdfab9314.pdf

Jack, K. (2017). The meaning of compassion fatigue to student nurses: an interpretive phenomenological study. Journal of Compassionate Health Care, 4(1), 2. https://jcompassionatehc.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40639-017-0031-5

Sinclair, S., Raffin-Bouchal, S., Venturato, L., Mijovic-Kondejewski, J., & Smith-MacDonald, L. (2017). Compassion fatigue: A meta-narrative review of the healthcare literature. International journal of nursing studies, 69, 9-24. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312301246_Compassion_fatigue_A_meta-narrative_review_of_the_healthcare_literature

van Mol, M. M., Kompanje, E. J., Benoit, D. D., Bakker, J., & Nijkamp, M. D. (2015). The prevalence of compassion fatigue and burnout among healthcare professionals in intensive care units: a systematic review. PloS one, 10(8), e0136955. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136955&type=printable

Vu, F., & Bodenmann, P. (2017). Preventing, managing and treating compassion fatigue. Preventing, managing and treating compassion fatigue, 168(8), 224-231. https://serval.unil.ch/notice/serval:BIB_D4E69411F897