Staff safety, positive patient outcomes and high quality care are the core goals of emergency nursing.

 

In caring for our patients, however, we often forget to take care of ourselves.

 

ED nursing is the most dangerous form of civilian nursing in Australia with patients being the most common source of violence.  Past research has also identified that compassion fatigue and burnout play central roles in both job dissatisfaction and attrition from nursing, while at the same time adversely impacting patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and overall quality of care.

 

Even so, not enough is known about how, specifically, compassion fatigue and burnout manifest in the real world interactions that occur between nurses and patients.

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Thanks to the interest and support of so many Australian ED nurses this research has become the largest study of its kind.

 

Preliminary results are now available via the RESULTS tab above.

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You can also follow the progress of this research via the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/researchcompassionfatigueandburnout/  

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For more information about compassion fatigue or healthy care giving please consider visiting: 

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http://www.compassionfatigue.org http://www.healthycaregiving.com/

http://www.proqol.org

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This research has been approved as LOW RISK by the Human Research Ethics Committee at Central Queensland University (HREC code H16/05-139)