Jennifer Shipman Author

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The Path to Increasing Your Professional Quality of Life: Reduction of Compassion Fatigue, Stress and Burnout

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Jennifer Shipman

Job-related stress in nurses leads to high rates of burnout, compromises patient care, and costs US healthcare organizations billions of dollars annually. Nurses are vulnerable to several related effects of stress, such as burnout, job dissatisfaction, increased interpersonal problems, increased health complaints, disturbances in sleep patterns, as well as clinical depression and anxiety. How we can deal with the stress that nurses endure? It is argued that the self-care is an effective way to increase the resilience of nurse so as to adapt to the fatigues. There is a direct correlation between nurses’ personality characteristics (optimism, faith, self-efficacy, control and coping style) and their psychological level of elasticity. Individuals who often deal with conflict in a neg... view more»

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