Compassion fatigue, moral distress and moral residue facing health-care providers
This is not a call for yet another report on how to fix a health-care system which appears to be collapsing under the weight of unrelenting demands at a time of decreasing personnel and financial resources. It's a call for a new kind of sustained commitment.
Health-care providers of all stripes, in all parts of the country, are burned out—they are physically and mentally exhausted and, in some cases, they suffer from compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is where the trauma of others is experienced by health-care providers as...
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