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Compassion Fatigue in Nursing: Healing Professional Quality of Life
Author(s): Vidette Todaro-Franceschi (Author)
- Publisher: Springer Publishing
- Publication Date: 15 Nov. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0826109772
- ISBN-13: 9780826109774
Book Description
Compassion fatigue afflicts nurses working in all caring environments and has become a serious issue in health care institutions nationwide. This is the only book to specifically address this challenge and the related syndrome of burnout in nursing. It presents a unique healing model designed to identify, treat and, where possible, avert compassion fatigue with holistic strategies and action plans that help cultivate a healthier, more satisfying work environment.
This volume addresses risk factors for and manifestations of compassion fatigue, burnout, and other related experiences such as PTS, death overload, collective trauma, and moral distress, and presents strategies to mediate and resolve these issues. This volume emphasises ways in which dissatisfaction influences the quality of patient care and calls for nurses to reinvent their work environments to favour compassion contentment. Case vignettes and exercises will help readers identify and alter patterns of negativity to reaffirm purpose in their professional lives.
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About the Author
Vidette Todaro-Franceschi, PhD, RN, FT, is an associate tenured professor and creator/ coordinator of the Clinical Nurse LeaderTM Graduate Program, Hunter College, and is also DNS Nursing Faculty, Graduate Center, both of the City University of New York. Her nursing career has spanned nearly 30 years and multiple roles, from staff nurse in medicine/surgery and cardiac critical care, to Clinical Nurse Specialist and Clinical Supervisor in acute and long term care. She has published more than 20 articles in major peer-reviewed journals, several chapters in textbooks, and is the author of the book The Enigma of Energy: Where Science and Religion Converge. Dr. Todaro-Franceschi is also on the academic advisory board for Annual Editions: Death, Dying and Bereavement, and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, Journal of Holistic Nursing, Nursing Science Quarterly, MedSurg, and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. She has performed over a dozen research studies in the areas of bereavement healing, end of life care, and professional quality of life, and is an End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Trainer and a Fellow in Thanatology (ADEC).
