WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Trauma nurses handle everything from gunshot wounds to stabbings to other critical assault injuries, and some say it can be hard to fight what's called "compassion fatigue." WJLA's ...

Credit: Getty Images. A study sought to determine if mindfulness-based stress reduction would ease compassion fatigue and burnout among the facility’s pediatric oncology nurses. A mindfulness-based ...

Mounting gun violence in Chicago has led physicians and nurses to experience “compassion fatigue,” a mixture of burnout and traumatic stress in which caretakers become numb to and attempt to distance ...

Providing compassionate patient care can come at a personal cost for nurses — compassion fatigue — but it can be prevented, according to an op-ed by Sharon Willey, DNP, RN, published in Ohio and ...

Compassion fatigue in health care workers is work-related chronic stress from caring for others. It is secondary stress from exposure to suffering. Burnout is also associated with compassion fatigue.

(NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in states where the delta variant is causing the most damage, it can feel like they’re living in a recurring nightmare. Hospital beds are filling up, intensive care ...

Patients experiencing illness may be met with challenges ahead: tests and surgeries, beeping machines and unfamiliar medical terminology. Fear, loneliness and stress can result. But often, the first ...

(NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in states where the delta variant is causing the most damage, it can feel like they’re living in a recurring nightmare. Hospital beds are filling up, intensive care ...

People whose professions lead to prolonged exposure to other people's trauma can be vulnerable to compassion fatigue, also known as secondary or vicarious trauma; they can experience acute symptoms ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — 7News continues to salute our healthcare heroes during National Nurses Week and Health and Wellness Reporter Victoria Sanchez visited Howard University Hospital's emergency ...

(NEXSTAR) – For health care workers in states where the delta variant is causing the most damage, it can feel like they’re living in a recurring nightmare. Hospital beds are filling up, intensive care ...