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Credit: Getty Images. A study sought to determine if mindfulness-based stress reduction would ease compassion fatigue and burnout among the facility’s pediatric oncology nurses. A mindfulness-based ...

“Almost that fraternity mentality. ‘If I have to do it, you have to do it,'” Ms. Burke told Becker’s in a recent interview. Today, she is an associate clinical professor and director of pre-licensure ...

Compassion fatigue can be physical, emotional, or spiritual exhaustion that overtakes the otherwise positive and fulfilling experience of helping others when we over-empathize (Figley, 2002a). Often ...

Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

In the realm of health care, a caregiver can take many faces — doctor, nurse, hospice worker, child, spouse — but the emotional and physical demands of the role are universal.

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Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...