#47: When Your Nursing Heart is Broken, Dealing with Compassion Fatigue

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🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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One of the harshest realities for new nurses is when that first big dose of compassion fatigue hits. It can be shocking, disheartening and confusing to realize you aren't "feeling all your feelings" with every single tragedy you encounter. The first step to getting a handle on compassion fatigue is knowing that partitioning off parts of your heart is vital to your emotional survival as a nurse. The next step is learning to recognize compassion fatigue as a key component in burnout so that you can stave it off before it convinces you to throw in the towel and leave the profession (please don't go...we need you!) And, if it does run you over like a freight train, knowing when and how to seek help is crucial to your longevity as a compassionate and effective clinician. See you there! ___________________ 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! Straight A Nursing App - Study on-the-go with the Straight A Nursing app! Review more than 5,000 flashcards covering a wide range of subjects including Fundamentals, Pediatrics, Med Surg, Mental Health, Maternal Newborn, and more! Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats including podquizzes, case studies and drills that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Episode 150 - I talk about how to recognize and prevent compassion fatigue in this episode too. 💕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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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hi everyone this is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:46.0	Podcast this is episode 47 and today we will be talking about compassion
0:52.2	fatigue maybe you have heard this term talking about compassion fatigue.
0:53.4	Maybe you have heard this term because you're already a nursing student and you hear it talked
0:57.6	about in your classes.
0:59.5	Maybe you've witnessed it already working in the clinical setting, maybe you are a nurse assistant or a
1:06.4	PCT, some kind of a tech, or maybe you've even seen it working in clinicals as a student.
1:14.9	So I wanted to just touch on the subject a little bit today.
1:17.9	It just seems like nobody prepares you for this.
1:22.3	They talk about it when you're in school, but nobody really
1:25.8	prepares you for the reality of dealing with it. And I would have to say, depending on where you work,
1:31.2	if you work in a high-acuity environment with a lot of tragedy, a lot of sadness, a lot of patient death, a lot of hardship, you are most likely going to experience this and I want you to expect that it is very likely to happen so that you're well equipped to meet it head on and hopefully mitigate it somewhat.
1:53.7	So I'm definitely no expert, but I will tell you what I know.
1:59.0	So compassion fatigue, lots of different official definitions out there about compassion fatigue.
2:05.8	A couple of people, Anna Walt in 2009 and Dr. Charles Figly in 1995, both very involved with this compassion fatigue concept, and I do believe that Dr.
2:18.7	Figly has a website about it if you want to check it out. It has been described as a combination of physical, emotional, and
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