One nurse comforting another in a COVID-19 unit. Photo credit: Daily Sabah A nurse’s professional quality of life is dictated the person’s level of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue (Stamm, 2010). Left untreated, compassion fatigue leads to burnout and secondary trauma in nurses. This results in nurses providing poor quality patient care due to the …
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Nurses and Compassion Fatigue 