Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environment

Compassion fatigue (CF) is an important issue for nursing professionals today because ‘caring and compassion, which provide nurses with satisfaction and fulfilment in patient care, can contribute to the exhaustion of those emotions and lead to compassion fatigue’.

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Main Author: Erin Wakefield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Australian College of Perioperative Nurses 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Perioperative Nursing
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Online Access:https://journal.acorn.org.au/index.php/jpn/article/view/271
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spelling doaj-art-e97c05c5e5b448cbbe4c872a096c487c2025-08-20T03:53:23ZengAustralian College of Perioperative NursesJournal of Perioperative Nursing2209-10842209-10922018-06-0131210.26550/2209-1092.1027Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environmentErin Wakefield0Eastern Health Compassion fatigue (CF) is an important issue for nursing professionals today because ‘caring and compassion, which provide nurses with satisfaction and fulfilment in patient care, can contribute to the exhaustion of those emotions and lead to compassion fatigue’. https://journal.acorn.org.au/index.php/jpn/article/view/271compassion fatigueburnoutsecondary traumatic stressperioperative nurse
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Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environment
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burnout
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perioperative nurse
title Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environment
title_full Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environment
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title_short Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environment
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topic compassion fatigue
burnout
secondary traumatic stress
perioperative nurse
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