Abstract

Health care workers have one of the most demanding professions. They are expected to work long hours while demonstrating compassion and care for the patients that they serve (Greshon, 2014). These expectations create additional stressors, and if these stressors are ignored, they can exasperate, causing physical and emotional harm for the nurses and patients. The nurses working at the Satellite Campus have experienced many of these stressors and they are exhibiting symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout. The symptoms of burnout & compassion fatigue affect the nurse's ability focus and care for the patients. The organization offers activities to help decrease the level of compassion fatigue and burnout; however, the activities are only offered at the Main Campus, which is an hour away from the Satellite Campus. In an effort to meet the needs of the employees working at the satellite campus, the Holistic Wellness quality improvement project will provide education and training to help decrease the symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout and ultimately improve compassion satisfaction for the nurses working at the Satellite Campus. The project design is an analytical, observational, fixed, cohort project. The theoretical model supporting the project is Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring.

Author Details

Donna Jo Veigel, DNP, RN, BAIS, RNC-NIC, HN-BC

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

DNP Capstone Project

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Mixed/Multi Method Research

Keywords:

Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Wellness

Advisor

Jill Schramm

Second Advisor

Bridget Roberts

Third Advisor

Suzan Miller-Hoover

Degree

DNP

Degree Grantor

Capella University

Degree Year

2016

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Self-submission

Date of Issue

2016-06-22

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