Compassion fatigue: Impact on healthcare providers of caring for the terminally ill

Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

Compassion fatigue in nurses, doctors and other front line cancer-care providers significantly impacts how they interact with patients, with patient families, with other healthcare workers, and with their own family, according to analysis by Indiana University School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute researchers published in the March issue of the Journal of Health Psychology...

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