Effects of Compassion Fatigue in the Effective Functioning of Nurses
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| APA-Formatted Article citation | Bahamian, R., VakiliMofrad, H., Masuomi, L., & Soltanian, A. (2019). Comparison of evidence-based medicine resources on responses to clinical questions on diabetes. Library Philosophy and Practice, 1-19.
| Nolte, A. G., Downing, C., Temane, A., & Hastings‐Tolsma, M. (2017). Compassion fatigue in nurses: A meta-synthesis. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(23-24), 4364-4378.
| Yang, Y., Long, Q., Jackson, S. L., Rhee, M. K., Tomolo, A., Olson, D., & Phillips, L. S. (2018). Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians are comparable in managing the first five years of diabetes. The American journal of medicine, 131(3), 276-283.
| Jalal, A., Jackson, D., & Usher, K. (2019). Compassion fatigue in critical care nurses. Saudi Medical Journal, 40(11), 1087-1097.
| American Diabetes Association. (2017). 2. Classification and diagnosis of diabetes. Diabetes care, 40(Supplement 1), S11-S24.
| Henson, J. S. (2017). When compassion is lost. Medsurg Nursing, 26(2), 139-143.
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| Relation of the article to the PICOT questions? | The article offers information that shows the clinical questions that can be used in examining a patient with diabetes. | This study draws mainly from the works of Downing et al. (2017) on a meta-synthesis research digging deep into the compassion fatigue in nurses’ lives. It is relevant to research to this study since it expounds on the various forces and pressures in the presence of a nurse that may influence them to develop compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is the situation in which nurses form misguiding or misleading compassionate or sympathetic abilities to individuals under their care who are often in intense suffering. | Notably, diabetes has remained very prevalent, not forgetting its deadly nature considering that it is the 7th killer disease in America. Thus, nurses are obliged to correctly diagnose patients to aid them in leading a better life, one that is not entirely threatened by diabetes. Nurses should, therefore, assess, plan, facilitate, coordinate care, evaluate, and advocate for a person to make sure that their medical necessities are met and that of their families. | Basing on the article, “Compassion fatigue in critical care nurses” by Usher et al. (2019), compassion fatigue among nurses can’t be predicted, but as earlier highlighted, the latter can be prevented. | The article explains how compassion fatigue impacts the diagnosing of persons with diabetes. | In situations where the nurses cannot experience any connection with their patients in terms of compassion, they cannot fathom what the latter is feeling, and then the nurses are deemed not to render better medical services. Therefore, empathy is significant in the undertakings of a nurse. The ability to care is a fundamental pillar in the work of a nurse. |
| Quantitative, Qualitative (How do you know?) | Qualitative research offers answers to questions like why and how people with diabetes can be diagnosed and how they can be treated. | . According to Downing et al. (2017), their study served to interpret the scope of qualitative efforts aimed at compassion fatigue to develop a conclusive and overall perception that can be incorporated into the nursing field. By so doing, then nurses can effectively diagnose persons that might be ailing from diabetes. Informed diagnostic skills are critical to the successful treatment of a patient, thus facilitating a better quality of care, thus favoring patients’ wellbeing of patients | This information is drawn from the study of Yihan et al., 2018, which is in the American Journal of Medicine. “Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians are comparable in managing the first five years of diabetes,” this is the title of the research conducted by Yihan et al. (2018 | It is qualitative research because it offers its findings in a transparent manner other than numerical. | It is qualitative research giving descriptive data. | Qualitative method |
| Purpose Statement | The Picot questions are for people at the age of 30 to 40. | By so doing, then nurses can effectively diagnose persons that might be ailing from diabetes. | This study is significant because it proves the vital role nurses play in reducing diabetic tendencies in patients. When adequately handled during its onset stages, diabetes can effectively be treated. | The purpose is to study different health practitioners and their correlation to compassion fatigue.
| To see the correlation between compassion fatigue to diagnosing diabetes. | The article “When compassion is lost” by Sheree Henson (2017) depicts the merits of nurses developing compassionate relationships towards patients. |
| Research Question | What PICOT questions are relevant to addressing diabetes problems? | Interpretation of the body of qualitative work, which focuses on compassion fatigue for distilling an apparent understanding which applies to nurse care? | Are our nurses and physician assistances comparable for management when traced in the first five years? | Is it possible to minimize different chances of developing compassion failures when one is physically and psychologically monitored? | Is there any relation of compassion of failures for nurses and their ability to diagnose diabetes | How to address compassion fatigue to control how it affects their daily lives |
| Outcome | The outcomes of the population are those ranging from the age of 30 to 40 years. | The outcome of the population shows that four themes are connected to compassion fatigue through consensus discussion. The issues involve physical and emotional symptoms combined with triggering factors and measures of overcoming and preventing diseases. | “Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians are comparable in managing the first five years of diabetes,” this is the title of the research. | It is possible to minimize the chances of nurses developing this condition by closely monitoring them both physically and psychologically. This way, the situation can be identified at its onset stages. | Compassion fatigue can render faulty diagnostic evaluation by nurses, such as diagnosing patients for diabetes. Diabetes is an illness that manifests itself, following an increase in the level of sugar or glucose in the blood. | Indeed, the article connects with this study since it helps address the factors surrounding the development of compassion by nurses and how the latter can influence their day to take activities. |
| Setting
| The study is done in a community setting. | Conducted in a clinical setting | Conducted on relevant personnel’s | Clinical settings | Clinical setting | |
| Sample | The sample is for people who have diabetes and are at the age of 20 to 30 years. | Data samples from qualitative findings that were done between 1992 up to 2016 | “Nurse practitioners, physician assistants and | Nurses that had compassion fatigue | Nurses that were suffering from compassion fatigue and yet played the role of diagnosing diabetes | Nurses that had compassion fatigue |
| Method | Methods of selection are selective sampling methods for people with diabetes ranging from 20 to 30 years. | Metathesis | Qualitative research method | Qualitative research method | Qualitative research | Qualitative selective research method |
| Key Findings of the Study | Results are that the blood sugar heights are clear after several times of diabetes diseases in their 30s. Further, the signs and symptoms of diabetes are not proclaiming within the first week of getting the disease. | The key findings were that a companionship is a form of consent that is relevant to nursing and is represented through a fundamental inability to nurture others and to engender short-term components. It offers an evidence to veracity of concepts which apply on clinical practice and different article relevant in nursing. | Notably, diabetes has remained very prevalent, not forgetting its deadly nature considering that it is the 7th killer disease in America. | Usher et al. (2019) found out that compassion fatigue was prevalent among nurses at all avenues. Nonetheless, the causal factors were tied to the work environment and demographic aspects of the nurses. | ). A nurse who is diagnosing a patient in determining if the latter is diabetic or not, maybe faced with challenges in identifying the most appropriate questions to ask the patient. | When nurses fail to balance their anxiety and stress, which arise from empathizing with the patients, they develop compassion fatigue. Often, such tendencies occur when nurses interact with patients who have suffered trauma. Therefore, the nurses, as a result of the relationships they have stricken with the patients, they may tend to share in the patients’ psychological suffering by making it their own |
| Recommendations of the Researcher | For all the adults, they should consider their eating habits to reduce the chances of contracting diabetes. Further, one can undergo a frequent clinical evaluation, which helps detect any signs and symptoms of diabetes. It offers healthcare providers in providing a solution. | . This research, therefore, recommends that techniques be applied to minimize the rates of burnouts, thus boosting the quality of medical care afforded to patients as well as getting nurses to enjoy their career and hence undertake it for a relatively longer duration.
| According to these scholars, the shortage of care providers in the U.S can be mitigated by raising the use of physician assistants and nurses in the clinical field. | Through administrative and leader intervention, the condition can thus be mitigated so that the nurses are often rejuvenated with the right moods and are therefore always in the right state of mind to engage in their delicate roles. | . As a nurse, one is always on the verge of having personal feelings and emotions influencing objective reasoning as well as the cause of action. Compassion fatigue is thus not a strange occurrence in the line of nursing undertakings. | Patients are part of every medical practitioner’s daily encounters, and hence, as a medical practitioner, one has to learn how to interact with them productively.
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Compassion fatigue is a condition of psychological and physical exhaustion such that a nurse can no longer render his or her duties effectively. This condition results from the lengthened interactions with patients more so those that have been through traumatic situations, communication with elderly patients, as well as lack of experience in the nursing field, thus being overwhelmed by every encounter that the nurse has with a patient. Such tendencies can hinder effective delivery of services more so care to deserving patients. Failure to connect with the patients and perceive what they are encountering acts as a barrier between the nurse and the patient. Compassion fatigue can hinder the success of even some of the less complicated tasks entrusted to the hands of a nurse, such as diagnosing patients, to treat them accordingly. An example of a diagnostic activity involves diagnosing a patient to ascertain the possibility of being diabetic.
References
American Diabetes Association. (2017). 2. Classification and diagnosis of diabetes. Diabetes care, 40(Supplement 1), S11-S24.
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Henson, J. S. (2017). When compassion is lost. Medsurg Nursing, 26(2), 139-143.
Jalal, A., Jackson, D., & Usher, K. (2019). Compassion fatigue in critical care nurses. Saudi Medical Journal, 40(11), 1087-1097.
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Nolte, A. G., Downing, C., Temane, A., & Hastings‐Tolsma, M. (2017). Compassion fatigue in nurses: A meta-synthesis. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(23-24), 4364-4378.
Yang, Y., Long, Q., Jackson, S. L., Rhee, M. K., Tomolo, A., Olson, D., & Phillips, L. S. (2018). Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians are comparable in managing the first five years of diabetes. The American journal of medicine, 131(3), 276-283.