Relentless work pressure can cause compassion fatigue. Find out how peer support and self-care can bring you back to why you became a nurse in the first place
Nurses are required by their professional code of practice to treat people with kindness, respect and compassion, recognise when they are anxious or in distress and respond compassionately and politely.
Nursing Standard. 39, 10, 22-23. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.10.22.s11
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