Implementing an intentional plan of selfcare for the nurses and patient care staff of Kaweah Delta Medical Center

Implementing an intentional plan of selfcare for the nurses and patient care staff of Kaweah Delta Medical Center

Kent A Mishler

This study relates to the national nursing shortage and the number of nurses leaving healthcare due to compassion fatigue. The study includes one hundred staff nurses at a medical center in central California in which the risk of compassion fatigue was measured prior to intervention. The intervention included eight hours of workshop and three follow-up sessions in which steps to reduce compassion fatigue were introduced. There were twenty-two participants in the intervention and every participant indicated in the post workshop measurement a significant reduction in compassion fatigue risk. The project report includes data gathered in the research and material used in the workshop.

Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary

English

2009