Compassion Fatigue in Psychiatric Nursing: A Systematic Review

Abstract

This is a systematic compilation study which aimed to determine whether psychiatry nurses were fatigue of compassion, or not. The screening of several databases revealed four articles fulfilling inclusion criteria of the study. While three of the articles examined were descriptive; one was in cross-sectional pattern. Along the inclusion criteria, no any Turkish article was determined regarding the subject. In these articles, compassion fatigue concept has usually been considered with “compassion satisfaction and burnout” concepts. According to the findings of aforesaid articles, it was determined that compassion satisfaction of psychiatry nurses was at low level; that their compassion fatigue and burnout levels were high; and as well that they showed post-traumatic stress symptoms.

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Esra Uslu, Kadriye Buldukoğlu

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  • EP ID EP341803
  • DOI 10.18863/pgy.310831
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Esra Uslu, Kadriye Buldukoğlu (2017). Compassion Fatigue in Psychiatric Nursing: A Systematic Review. Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar - Current Approaches in Psychiatry, 9(4), 421-430. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-341803