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Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

#150: How to Recognize and Prevent Compassion Fatigue

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A student reached out to me a few weeks ago to ask “How do you leave your work at the hospital? What do you do when a patient touches your heart, but you have to leave and go home?” In this podcast episode we’ll be diving into compassion fatigue, what causes it, the signs, and how to prevent it.  ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wished that you had a direct line to your pediatrician to ask all the questions that constantly crop up while parenting? We sure have.

0:10.0

That's why we launched the Bites of Health Podcast.

0:13.8

Every morning will answer a commonly asked

0:16.3

pediatric question in five minutes or less.

0:19.5

You can tune in while you're making your second cup of coffee or from the school drop off line.

0:24.8

So be sure to tune in to Bites of Health.

0:28.1

Streaming Now. Hi there again friends this is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the

0:43.9

Straight A Nursing podcast I am thrilled you're here with me today for episode 150

0:49.8

where we dive into a topic that I'm really passionate about

0:55.0

and love sharing with nursing students.

0:57.4

And that is the topic of compassion fatigue.

1:01.0

It's one of those things that you hear about, but you think there's no way that's ever going to happen to me.

1:09.0

And I'm here to say it very likely can and could and maybe even will happen to you and we'll talk about that in just a moment and how you can recognize if it's starting to happen,

1:24.0

prevented in the first place and what to do if it's already set in.

1:29.0

So before we do that, I want to make sure that we're maximizing our time together. So if you're sitting at

1:36.7

your desk or something like that, I want you to go to the closet, your shoes on let's get outside and go for a walk

1:46.0

together and talk about this important topic or head out to the garden and do some

1:50.2

weeding or fold the laundry or something like that let's be productive let's move

1:55.3

our bodies if you're driving okay we'll give you a pass because it is nice to make use of your

2:01.6

commute time but if you're just sitting, let's get moving.

2:06.4

Okay? I do always like to start out to acknowledge my listeners with a listener shout out. So this one goes to Clara. knowledge my

2:15.0

listeners my listeners with a listener shout out so this one goes to Clara. Clara thank you so much for writing in and sharing your experience with my crucial concepts

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