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...Fatigue and Burnout for Caregivers and Professionals Grand Canyon University HLT 310V Gail M Biggers 3/7/2011 1 Ms Marie Armbruster March 6, 2011 3/7/2011 2 Health care professionals and care givers devote their time caring for others and often forget to care for themselves. The end result is the conditions known as “burnout” or “ compassion fatigue”. The care giver and health care professional can take steps to prevent fatigue and mend their physical and mental health. 3/7/2011 3 The definition of “burnout” according to Christina Maslach, a psychologist and first supporter of the challenge, defined “burnout” as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion. Herbert Freudenberger who declares that he coined the term says that burnout is a loss of energy and the feeling of being overwhelmed by others problems. 3/7/2011 4 Since caregivers are needed to perform strenuous and physical activities, this can stress the body. This can consist of: Lifting a patient, (in and out of bed, wheelchair, bathtub, or car). Turning the patient, bathing, feeding, cooking for the patient as well as for themselves. Also additional shopping. 3/7/2011 5 Emotional demands can present a problem. When caring for someone who is ill or disabled it can be emotionally stressful. Often the person you are caring for may not remember you, have difficulty following directions or telling you what they need especially if the patient is diagnosed with dementia. When providing care you may also...
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...reliability and validity. 8 3.5 Sampling techniques. 8 3.6 Definitions of key terms, concepts and variables. 9 3.7 Data analysis and interpretation. 9 3.8 Ethical considerations. 10 3.8.1 Confidentiality. 10 3.8.2 Informed consent 10 3.8.3 Provision of debriefing, counseling and additional information. 10 3.9. Pretest or pilot study. 11 4. MY PERSONAL WORK PLAN 12 LIST OF SOURCES 12 From here on, please use 1, 5 spacing in your text. Should you include tables in your introduction or literature review, please number them Table 1, Table 2, etc. TITLE: (Give a brief title for your proposed study here. For example: An investigation into the causes of burnout amongst volunteer caregivers in a home-based HIV-AIDS support program. It does not have to be perfect at the first attempt. You might change it as...
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...reliability and validity. 8 3.5 Sampling techniques. 8 3.6 Definitions of key terms, concepts and variables. 9 3.7 Data analysis and interpretation. 9 3.8 Ethical considerations. 10 3.8.1 Confidentiality. 10 3.8.2 Informed consent 10 3.8.3 Provision of debriefing, counseling and additional information. 10 3.9. Pretest or pilot study. 11 4. MY PERSONAL WORK PLAN 12 LIST OF SOURCES 12 From here on, please use 1, 5 spacing in your text. Should you include tables in your introduction or literature review, please number them Table 1, Table 2, etc. TITLE: (Give a brief title for your proposed study here. For example: An investigation into the causes of burnout amongst volunteer caregivers in a home-based HIV-AIDS support program. It does not have to be perfect at the first attempt. You might change it as...
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...Combatting Compassion Fatigue LC Grand Canyon University: HLT 310 June 15, 2014 Combatting Compassion Fatigue Compassion is the core value of the caregiver’s work, and that the essence of compassion is what gives nursing its soulfulness, staying power, and healing resources (Bush, 2009). As health care workers overtime caring and helping patients that are suffering or traumatized can have a toll on us, and this can lead to compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue can suddenly render nurses unable to distinguish between their own emotions and those of their patients (Thompson, 2013). Compassion fatigue can happen to anyone of us, and it should not be ignored. As nurses we have to be aware of the warning signs of compassion fatigue. We can now use proactive measures to deal with this. We spend time providing patient care, but we forget about ourselves. We must take care of ourselves if we want to provide quality patient care. Warning signs of five concepts of compassion fatigue There are five major concepts of compassion fatigue, they are cognitive, emotional, behavioral, spiritual, and somatic (Bush, 2009). All healthcare professionals should be aware of the warning signs. These signs should be used as early signals to see if we are suffering from compassion fatigue or if we are vulnerable. When it comes to compassion fatigue early intervention is key. Each person is different so no one person will have the same warning signs. Warning signs of each concept will discussed...
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...Combating Compassion Fatigue April 05, 2012 Introduction Helping others is what health care is all about. When you have a calling or a passion to care for others and to help them, you should truly be a care giver. But the very thing that draws us to be a care taker and helping others in their time of need can be what cause us to be exhausted, disappointed, and unable to cope at times and burned out. I am talking about compassion fatigue. We will talk about what CF is, what causes it and, hopefully, how to prevent it. Warning signs for compassion fatigue Compassion fatigue or burn-out, trauma or empathetic strain is an occupational hazard for health care professionals. Compassion fatigue can also be called or defined as a physical, emotional or spiritual exhaustion that overcomes a caretaker and cause them not to be able to feel joy, happiness or other emotions associated with health care (Counter Compassion Fatigue with Mindfulness). There are many signs and symptoms of CF and just a few include: Feeling tired before your work even begins, lack of enjoyment in your personal life, excessive drinking, overeating, excessive spending, blaming others not to mention your physical symptoms like back pain, stomach ache and having to use your sick days (Combating compassion fatigue). These signs can include physical symptoms, psychological symptoms, emotional symptoms and even professional symptoms (A hospital-wide approach to combating compassion fatigue). Some physical symptoms...
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...Caring for the Caregiver Paul Cobb Liberty University Abstract Those who provide are care in times of emergency, trauma, and grief are at great risk for developing health related issues and complications arising from providing services to those in need. The stress associated with professions such as doctors, nurses, clergy, and family member caregivers can prove disastrous to the emotional, physical and mental well-being of these responders. Depression, burnout, and compassion fatigue are but a few of the negative results of the continued stress that is placed upon caregivers in their day-to-day dealings with the suffering. More research must be conducted to examine ways to provide awareness to the caregiver and to provide awareness training to physicians and mental health professionals who are consulted by those who are experiencing symptoms associated with caregiving. Furthermore, research must be conducted to ensure that caregivers are made aware of the resources available to them through religious institutions, healthcare providers, and social support so they may reach out and be helped. Caring for the Caregiver The purpose of this research paper is to examine the impact that caring for others has upon those within the caregiving profession. Many studies have been conducted that link caregiver stress with negative effects upon the emotional, mental and physical health of the caregiver. The American Journal of Nursing (2008) states that "the increasing numbers of...
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...observing the emotional and physical turmoil of another human being. It is an imperative characteristic of a successful and effectual nurse. Compassion fatigue is a peculiar condition with healthcare givers and those in the healthcare. People or health care providers who are taking care of others, trying to handle stressful situations are especially susceptible to compassion fatigue. While compassion fatigue has been observed in professional caregivers and discussed in the literature over the past two decades, a specific definition of its characteristics and corollaries has not been uniformly embraced (Coetzee & Klopper, 2010; Najjar, Davis, Beck-Coon, & Doebbeling, 2009). Compassion fatigue characterizes a progressive state of emotional unease. It evolves from compassion discomfort, to compassion stress, and finally to compassion fatigue, a state where the compassion energy that is expended by nurses (and others) surpasses their ability to recover from this energy expenditure, resulting in significant negative psychological and physical consequences (ANA,2011) Nurses are particularly vulnerable to compassion fatigue. They often enter the lives of others at very critical junctures and become partners, rather than observers, in patients’ healthcare journeys. Acute care nurses in particular often develop empathic engagement with patients and families. This coupled with their experience of cumulative grief, positions them at the epicenter of an environment often characterized...
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...Achieving and Maintaining Individual Excellence Where does a person develop the lesson of personal growth and learning? I believe it is through the values and ethics they will carry through life. Most lessons are learned from the family who one is raised in, while others may be learned from peers or society in general. My own values are a mixture of all those along with the experiences I have had throughout my lifetime. Having overcome many obstacles in my own life, helping others find ways to overcome their own obstacles has long been a goal of mine. This has helped me reach my goals, and to show my children that you can accomplish anything in life. Just to do it! I am a Master Level Register Addiction Specialist. Currently, I work with Lifers in the State of California Correction system. My duties include consist of individual sessions, group settings, treatments plans, and DAP weekly notes. I enjoy my job. Working with this population many of the men have been in prison over a period of fifteen years or more. The only problem with this position is that there is no opportunity for a promotion, which is a little discouraging. Managing the environment “A human service manager will need to monitor trends in the environment constantly, from the local and state levels to the federal and, sometimes, the global level. Political trends including devolution of formerly federal responsibilities, privatization of services, and increased accountability demands are likely to continue...
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...Testing. The campaign was launched as an effort to step up and supplement and modify the programmes that are already running in the country, to fight HIV and AIDS. The campaign is known as the National HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign and it is based on the National HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign Strategy of SANAC (2010). The study aimed to investigate the impact of the campaign in terms of awareness levels of the benefiting groups as well as the challenges experienced by the relevant role players in implementing the campaign at the Ga-Motupa community in Limpopo. The investigation tools used in the research were interview schedules (qualitative). Three different focus groups were sampled from the target groups, namely Care givers, learners and ABET educators. Individual...
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...influenced by nursing pioneers, scholars, government agencies and nursing organizations. Nurses need to develop a professional mission statement that defines our understanding of nursing concepts, our professional strengths and our critical thinking abilities. A. Functional Differences A regulatory agency, such as the Virginia Board of Nursing (VBON), is state government agency that exists solely to enforce the laws that regulate nursing practice. The BON protects the public’s safety and welfare by outlining the standards for safe nursing care, issuing licenses to practice nursing and monitoring compliance to state laws (McDaniel, 2013-14). The BON will investigate complaints of nurses not in compliance with the nurse practice act and will take necessary disciplinary action against nurses found in violation. In addition, BONs approve pre-licensure nursing education programs and oversee the licensure examination of nurses. All health care professionals must pay licensure fees in order to practice legally in their state. These activities assure that the public is cared for by qualified individuals (McDaniel, 2013-14). Professional nursing organizations have the same goal as BONs, to protect the public, however the method by which it is accomplished is functionally different. Nursing organizations are nurses working together to develop professional standards and practices, codes of ethics, and to promote and to protect to economic and general welfare of nurses (McDaniel, 2013-14)...
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...are between the ages of 64-74, 45% are over 85 years of age. It is estimated that anyone over 65 years of age will have a 43% chance of spending some time in a nursing home (Kemper and Murtaugh, 1991) and about 24 % of these individuals will spend less than a year in residence at a nursing home (CDC, 2012). The key employees of the nursing home that have the most interaction and greatest impact with the residents of nursing homes are the registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and certified nursing assistants (CNAs). For several years the shortage and turnover rate of nursing home staff has long been a serious problem for multiple nursing homes nationwide (Pillemer, et al., 2008). Providing effective and safe quality care in nursing homes requires clinically and interpersonally competent staff. Research findings suggest that inadequate supervisory, managerial, and human resource practices within nursing homes contribute to poor outcomes, including high nursing staff turnover, lower employee satisfaction, and poor clinical outcomes (Anderson, et al 2003). When a staff member leaves an organization, the knowledge, skill and experience that the person has brought to, and gained at, the organization is lost. Although high rates of nursing home staffing shortages and...
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...There are three different models of health and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing practice such as Traditional chinese medicine. Nursing that promotes body-mind healing relies on strategies that soothe and relax the mind and body such as yoga, visual imagery, biofeedback and meditation to alleviate pain and stress while preventing infections by boosting immunity (http://www.brainline.org/content/2009/06/mind-body-medicinean-overview_pageall.html) . Being an avid yoga participant I know personally the benefits of mind-body health and healing. This model started becoming widely popular in the 1950’s and focuses on a person’s own ability to heal through becoming aware of their own feelings and beliefs (Koerner, J. 2016). This gives the patient the ability to participate in their own healing process. It empowers the patient by putting the ability to control stress, pain, etc through processes without relying on medicine or other health technology and professionals. Body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social health and healing model treats the entire patient. Its...
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...Billy Mishak N491 Concepts and Theories in Nursing Module 2 9/30/2014 Nightingale’s Visit Florence Nightingale’s core belief was in hygiene and to her the central element of healthcare (Parker & Smith, 2010, p45). Florence being a staunch proponent of the healing properties environmental cleanliness provided and her belief in nursing as her calling from God, “ The first thought that I can remember, and the last, was nursing work..” (Parker & Smith, 2010, 36), so few things inhibited her from achieving order and cleanliness. Nightingale’s provisions to those she cared for was cleanliness, order, encouragement to eat, feeding, clean bed linen, clean bodies, and clean wards (Parker & Smith, 2010, p40). Nightingale’s absolute adherence to these beliefs at times bordered on obstinacy and her efforts where credited with better patient outcomes. Community Health is a difficult field in any situation most notably because being in another persons home takes that measure of environmental control away that is afforded by the hospital setting. The community nurse in this case is confronted with a home environment that is not fit for human living, her quick visual assessment skills pointed out a two year old on the floor playing with a cat, a full liter box in the corner next to the changing table. The changing table had two half-empty formula bottles, an empty box of wipes, and three soiled diapers. The two year old goes from playing with the cat on the floor to holding...
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...Rural Health Care According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in recent years, concern for rural populations has emerged in Congress and other upper levels of government. The creation of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) exemplified this new recognition of the significant challenges and difficulties facing rural residents in a rapidly urbanizing Nation. According to the 1990 census, there were over 61 million people living in rural areas. That equals a population greater than that of the UK, Spain, France or Italy in 1996. Rural America touches almost every state. A large number of the Western states have a majority of land which is defined as rural. Generally, non-metropolitan populations have higher poverty rates, higher unemployment rates, and lower educational backgrounds than those individuals living in metropolitan communities. These same residents in non-metropolitan areas are afflicted with a poorer health status. There are higher rates of chronic disease, infant mortality, accidental farming-related injuries, occupational hazards, and trauma mortality in rural areas when compared to those living in metropolitan areas. A compounding factor affecting these already poor indicators is the significant lack of access to health care in these rural communities. The barriers to access are due to a variety of factors. Many of the residents of rural America have limited financial resources to pay for their medical care. In addition...
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