scholarly journals Levels of vocational satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue of health professionals working in pediatric clinics

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Oğuz Koyuncu ◽  
Sevda Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Vocational Satisfaction

The importance of self-compassion for health visitors' wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 510-515
Author(s):  
Laura Woods
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Group Interventions ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Health Visitors ◽  
Staff Wellbeing

This article presents an extended literature review, undertaken to understand the significance of self-compassion for health professionals' wellbeing and its relevance for the health visiting workforce. The review showed that self-compassion reduces compassion fatigue, burnout, anxiety, stress and depression. Further, self-compassionate employees are more compassionate towards colleagues and patients, and compassionate practice enhances staff wellbeing. Organisational support for wellbeing increases staff members' sense of worth, resulting in improved ownership of their own wellbeing, and group interventions in particular foster self-compassionate work cultures. The review concludes that self-compassion enhances staff wellbeing and recommends that all NHS staff should be provided with the tools to prevent compassion fatigue and burnout.

Self-care for health professionals

2019 ◽  
pp. 835-842
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Intractable Pain ◽  
Personal Anxiety

This chapter covers theory of palliative care issues associated with caring for people who are dying and the particular stresses involved. Sources of stress are multiple, may be accumulative, and are linked to all areas of an individual’s life. Working with dying people may be stressful, particularly if staff experience personal bereavement and loss. Such work can put staff in touch with personal anxiety about loss and death. Palliative care staff also find it very stressful to deal with patients who experience intractable pain, those who have young children, and those patients who are afraid to die. Symptoms that leave nurses feeling helpless, useless, and impotent are the most stressful to deal with, as is dealing with distressed relatives. The chapter looks at strategies for supporting a workforce involved in the ongoing delivery of palliative care to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue.

Institutional Barriers to Healthy Workplace Environments: From the Voices of Social Workers Experiencing Compassion Fatigue

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 1942-1960
Author(s):  
Linda Kreitzer ◽  
Sharon E Brintnell ◽  
Wendy Austin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Outcome Measurement ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Environments ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract The good health and well-being of health care professionals is increasingly an important issue and one that is under threat due to dominant neo-liberal economic factors. These factors influence health care service delivery which in turn focuses less on employee workplace satisfaction and more on profit-making corporate business models. More work with less pay/benefits, less time to work with clients and the focus on outcomes has created workplaces in which employees are experiencing negative organisational cultures that, in turn, affects their health and well-being. One negative effect is compassion fatigue (CF). In Canada, a national inter-disciplinary research project was conducted for health professionals (n = 52) who self-identified as experiencing CF. From this research, an analysis of a sub-sample of the data of fourteen social workers was conducted identifying specific institutional factors that participants described as creating conditions for their CF. These factors are presented including: (i) cost-effective services within time constraints and political climates; (ii) erosion of relationship building; (iii) lack of communication between managers and front line workers; (iv) cutbacks in services; (v) climate of fear; and (vi) outcome measurement requirements. These concerns related to workplace environments and the health and well-being of health professionals are discussed.

Compassion Fatigue and Mindfulness: Comparing Mental Health Professionals and MSW Student Interns

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi L. Constantine Brown ◽  
Jacqueline Ong ◽  
Jessica M. Mathers ◽  
James T. Decker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Msw Student ◽  
Student Interns

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Present-Centered Awareness and Attention, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue in Oncology Health Professionals

Mindfulness ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Hegel ◽  
Georgia K. B. Halkett ◽  
Penelope Schofield ◽  
Clare S. Rees ◽  
Brody Heritage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Professional Quality of Life and Perceived Stress in Health Professionals before COVID-19 in Spain: Primary and Hospital Care

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 484
Author(s):  
Ángela María Ortega-Galán ◽  
María Dolores Ruiz-Fernández ◽  
María-Jesús Lirola ◽  
Juan Diego Ramos-Pichardo ◽  
Olivia Ibáñez-Masero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Professional Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Professional Quality

This study aimed to analyze the professional quality of life and the perceived stress of health professionals before COVID-19 in Spain, in primary and hospital care professionals. A cross-sectional observational study on health professionals working in health centers during the health crisis caused by COVID-19 was conducted. Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL) and Perceived Stress (PSS-14) were measured, along with socio-demographic and labor variables through an online questionnaire. A descriptive and correlation analysis was performed. A total of 537 professionals participated, both in hospital care (54.7%) and in primary care (45.3%). There was a predominance of medium Compassion Satisfaction, high Compassion Fatigue and medium Burnout. Mean scores for compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction were slightly higher in primary care, while burnout was higher in hospital care. When primary care participants were grouped by profession, significant differences were found in relation to perceived stress and to the three subscales of professional quality of life. In hospital care, the differences were observed when comparing compassion fatigue and perceived stress by gender. In addition, with respect to Burnout it was carried out by type of contract and shift and in relation to perceived stress grouped by sex, contract and profession. The COVID-19 health crisis has had an impact on mental health and the quality of professional life of health professionals. There is a need to implement long-term contingency programs aimed at improving the emotional well-being of health service professionals.

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