Articles: empathy.
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Editorial Comment
Decline in empathy in medical education: how can we stop the rot?
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Family's needs and considerations are an essential component of intensive care unit (ICU) care. Family satisfaction is related to clinician communication and decision making. Indeed, timely, honest communication is vital to the psychosocial health and satisfaction of the family. ⋯ Again, good communication skills are critical to family satisfaction with decision making and comfort with the care received. Family members have numerous psychosocial changes, and may experience depression,anxiety, or anticipatory grief while their family member is dying in the ICU. Awareness of these conditions, providing support to the families, and allowing family access to the dying individual can assist with meeting the family's desire to see their family member have a peaceful death.
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J Pediatr Health Care · Jul 2004
Compassion fatigue and burnout in nurses who work with children with chronic conditions and their families.
With the current and ever-growing shortage of nurses in the United States, it is imperative that nurses find ways to prevent burnout and effectively manage compassion fatigue that can result from working with traumatized populations. The aim of this study is to identify the triggers and coping strategies that nurses who work with children with chronic conditions use to manage compassion fatigue and prevent burnout. ⋯ Nurses need to be able to identify signs of compassion fatigue and develop a range of coping strategies and a support system to revitalize their compassion and minimize the risk of burnout.