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 ...

The explosion of telehealth, remote monitoring, and screen-based charting is leading to digital compassion fatigue for nurses.

Compassion fatigue can lead to burnout and emotional exhaustion, which can cause cynicism, where caregivers “don’t see the purpose in their work. And then that impacts both their professional life and ...

Compassion fatigue is a type of secondary trauma that occurs when a provider experiences distress from their ongoing role in taking care of patients who are suffering. They become emotionally and ...

The last 18 months have been incredibly taxing on the human psyche as we experience the COVID-19 virus, racial tensions, a challenging economy, the recent gas shortage, and isolation. On top of all of ...

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 ...

For 19 years in a row, Americans continue to rate nurses as being the most honest and ethical of any profession that Gallup regularly asks about. Nurses’ ability to show compassion, no matter who the ...

It was May 2020 during the early days of the pandemic, the Kriftcher family gathered in their backyard to celebrate Jeannie Kriftcher’s eldest daughter, Hannah, turning 22. Albeit during a time of ...