Journal of Nursing : Caring
aacn aids anesthesia asd assessing mental health status autism behavioral blood bullying cancer care caring change changes children clinical clinical experience college communication cpr death diabetes discussions disease education elderly emergency ethics experiences falls family future of nursing haiti health health care healthy hiv hospital icu jobs knowledge lateral violence leadership life love medication mental health mental health need mental illness patient assessment nurse nurse educator nurse practitioners nurses nursing nursing academy nursing education nursing faculty nursing school nursing students opinion articles pacu pain partnership patient patient assessment patient care patient education patients pediatric pediatrics philosophy poem prescriptions prescriptive authority prevention profession quitting reflection relationships research restroom risk rn sex sexual health std stress student student nurse students support teaching technology thank you therapy transition veterans veterans affairs women
-
The Cost of Caring
Julie Givens RN, BSN Cynthia Bain MSN, RN, CNE
Nurses care for individuals when they are most vulnerable and often serve as emotional outlets. It is this deep caring that can lead to nurses becoming burnt out or developing vicarious traumatization, secondary traumatic stress, or compassion fatigue. Awareness of these phenomena and methods of prevention needs to be increased throughout the profession. This includes teaching nursing students as they begin having interactions with patients in the clinical setting. -
Do We Really Know Who Our Patients Are?
Maureen Kroning RN EdD
The profession of nursing has become so task orientated that we often forget to ask, "Who is our patient? ”What was their life like prior to becoming ill?" With advances in technology and the business atmosphere of healthcare nurses are often not able to provide patients with one of the most fundamental core competencies of nursing, caring.
