Compassion Fatigue Primer for our Current Work Environment

Course overview

Compassion fatigue is the distress resulting from the continual demands of caring for others and witnessing pain and trauma. Compassion fatigue affects not only the health care provider in terms of job satisfaction, emotional and physical health, but also the workplace environment by decreasing productivity and increasing turnover. Our current healthcare work environments are amplifying all the factors that lead to compassion fatigue. This seminar will describe the stages, causes, symptoms, and consequences of compassion fatigue. It will also introduce strategies for assessing levels of stress and implementing strategies to prevent/minimize the development of compassion fatigue in your healthcare setting.