Articles: empathy.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz · Nov 2006
Review[Doctor's role and communication with the dying].
In palliative medicine, the doctor's role towards the patient changes from curing to looking after and depends on the different organizational forms. A key topic for the doctor remains the decision, how far medical treatment should be extended - according to patient's will. ⋯ This leads to the following aims of communication with the dying: Recording of somatic, psychic, social and spiritual problems of the patients, informing about illness and prognosis, responding to the patient's emotional situation and to the existential dimension of dying as well as involving relatives in communication. "Active listening" is proposed as a communication form to be learned by doctors. Training programs and possibilities of improving the emotional situation of doctors are described.
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This study explores the impact of the process of socialisation on pre-registration student nurses views about care, and their personal ability to cope with becoming a nurse. ⋯ Identified changes between data collection stages suggest socialisation results in a loss of idealism about care within nursing, as well as the identification of negative aspects of care. Loss of care is linked to increased abilities to cope with the nursing role, although this is not uniform and some participants clearly discriminate and reject negative exposures. In conclusion this study identifies an under recognised dichotomy between the caring ethos of professional nursing and the professional socialisation processes student nurses are subject to, which directly mitigate against the individual nurses abilities to care.
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The aim of this study was to explore and describe nurse supervisors' views of the value of caring in nursing supervision and how they strive to make this value visible. ⋯ The value of caring in nursing supervision was described as a genuine encounter, consciousness of one's own value base, confirmation and a relationship characterized by learning in addition to providing consolation. The role of the supervisor is characterized by three dimensions: willingness, knowledge and courage.
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Child abuse & neglect · Oct 2006
Compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction among Colorado child protection workers.
The goal of this study was to understand better the risk of compassion fatigue (the trauma suffered by the helping professional) and burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sense of personal accomplishment), and the potential for compassion satisfaction (the fulfillment from helping others and positive collegial relationships) among Colorado county child protection staff using the Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test [Figley, C. R., & Stamm, B. H. (1996). Psychometric review of Compassion Fatigue Self-Test. In B. H. Stamm (Ed.), Measurement of stress, trauma, and adaptation (pp. 127-130). Lutherville, MD: Sidran Press]. An additional goal was to test the relationship of these three constructs to each other. ⋯ Approximately 50% of Colorado county child protection staff suffered from "high" or "very high" levels of compassion fatigue. The risk of burnout was considerably lower. More than 70% of staff expressed a "high" or "good" potential for compassion satisfaction. We believe compassion satisfaction may help mitigate the effects of burnout.