When nurses lose compassion – and how to get it back
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When nurses lose compassion – and how to get it back

Jennifer Trueland Health journalist

Find out how team debriefs, peer support and promoting self-care can help nursing teams maintain empathy and kindness

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. But compassion can be a casualty when the going gets tough. So-called compassion fatigue can happen when nurses feel they are in ‘crisis mode’, says Sharon Aldridge-Bent, a leadership consultant and nursing lecturer. And it can happen to anyone.

Nursing Management. 31, 5, 6-7. doi: 10.7748/nm.31.5.6.s2

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