When Michelle Weihman started her nursing career, electronic health records (EHRs) were still experimental, so she relied on paper charts to document essential patient information. More than a decade ...

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 ...

As global populations age, nursing leadership has become essential to managing the complex health and social requirements of older adults. Nurses frequently ...

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Trauma nurses handle everything from gunshot wounds to stabbings to other critical assault injuries, and some say it can be hard to fight what's called "compassion fatigue." WJLA's ...

“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 ...

It’s Nurses Week! The one week a year that is filled with “Thanks” from former patients and family members, trays of cookies and sweet treats to fill our bellies and give just enough of a sugar high ...

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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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — 7News continues to salute our healthcare heroes during National Nurses Week and Health and Wellness Reporter Victoria Sanchez visited Howard University Hospital's emergency ...