Have you been feeling burned out at work lately? Does your job involve high degrees of stress and trauma? Often, we have compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma without even knowing it. Amid the COVID ...

Humans have a great capacity for compassion. Even at their own expense. Source: Anna Earl/Unsplash I recently gave a presentation on compassion fatigue. I discussed how it differs from burnout, what ...

Self-compassion is the ongoing practice of relating to yourself kindly and fairly. It is especially helpful during times of stress and suffering. Self-compassion is not kicking yourself when you’re ...

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Three events impacted me in 2015: First, a study by HCI Nurse Manager Melissa Banner and Clinical Nurse Whitney Houser showed that we had a real problem at HCI with compassion fatigue and burnout.

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 ...

Sandy Bruno, youth and family coordinator at Comfort Zone Camp, a national nonprofit bereavement camp for grieving families, experienced compassion fatigue in the aftermath of her husband's death. She ...