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Clin Pediatr (Phila)
January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Nanjing Lishui People's Hospital, Nanjing, China.
Background: Compassion fatigue is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion that arises from frequent contact with people who have experienced trauma or stress, which may affect particularly those working in health care. This study aimed to elucidate the prevalence and determinants of compassion fatigue among pediatric nurses.
Methods: A survey was administered to pediatric nurses at a tertiary hospital in Jiangsu province, China.
J Hosp Palliat Nurs
February 2025
Janice Nesbitt, MN, RN, CHPCN(C), is Clinical Operations Lead, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Palliative Care Program, Manitoba, Canada.
The provision of palliative care has been seen to have a significant impact on the interprofessional health care team. Being emotionally present to support patients and families at their most stressful points in life can result in compassion satisfaction or compassion fatigue. Providing palliative care through the COVID-19 pandemic added another layer of complexity to this professional caregiving experience.
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January 2025
Medical Ethics and Low Research Center, Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background: Oncology nurses have a vital role in providing care for individuals with cancer. Ethical dilemmas arise for oncology nurses caring for these patients. Nurses experience moral distress when work conflicts with personal beliefs, leading to inappropriate responses or uncertainty about ethics.
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January 2025
Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine.
Background: At the beginning of 2022, Central Europe entered a state of emergency due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Nurses were particularly vulnerable to a decline in their professional quality of life, facing repeated exposure to military trauma, ethical dilemmas, prolonged working hours, and increased stress and fatigue. This study aimed to contribute to our understanding of the potential mediating effect of war-related continuous traumatic stress on the association between moral distress and professional quality of life, including compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, represented by burnout and secondary traumatic stress.
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November 2024
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
"Pseudo-endocrine disorders" refer to proposed conditions that have never been scientifically proven to exist but, due to widespread misinformation available on the internet and other media, are relatively commonly diagnosed and treated with equally unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments. Adrenal fatigue is a nonexistent condition that supposedly results from adrenal exhaustion and atrophy due to chronic stress and has been promoted as a potential explanation for a variety of symptoms. Testing consists of nonvalidated online surveys and salivary cortisol profiles while treatment is not evidence-based at best and can be dangerous.
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