Cultivating Self-Compassion to Protect Nurses From Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress.

Journal: Nursing for women's health

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Nursing burnout, a result of prolonged occupational stress, has always been a challenge in health care, but recently the COVID-19 pandemic made this issue into a national priority. In fact, burnout among health care workers is one of the four priorities of the U.S. Surgeon General. Health care leaders and organizations are eager to implement strategies to improve nurses' well-being and, thus, enhance their mental health. Much of the literature has focused on the antecedents and consequences of nursing burnout, but there is limited information on strategies that protect perinatal nurses from burnout. Self-compassion is emerging as one strategy that has a positive correlation with nurse well-being and a negative association with burnout, depression, and anxiety. In this article, we identify and translate strategies to promote self-compassion in perinatal nurses.

Authors & Co-authors:  Hughes Hudson Wright Swoboda Frangieh D'Aoust

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Authors :  6
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Doi : S1751-4851(24)00035-7
SSN : 1751-486X
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Male,Female
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burnout;kindness;mental health;mindfulness;nurses;occupational stress;secondary traumatic stress;self-compassion;well-being
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United States