Compassion Fatigue Among ICU Nurses and Coping Strategies.

Compassion Fatigue Among ICU Nurses and Coping Strategies.

Author Catherine Mary Abou-Zaid
Co-Author Ms. Lulwa Albuhainain, Mr. Yoonus Pathikkal
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Country : Kingdom of Bahrain
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Keywords : ICU, Compassion fatigue, Stress, Tired, Coping.

Abstract

Background:

Intensive care nursing is one of the most specialized fields requiring admiringly competent and high-quality practice. Being constantly exposed to the stressful workload of the intensive care unit (ICU) work environment to maintain the best nursing practice subsequently leads to compassion fatigue syndrome among ICU nurses. Compassion fatigue awareness and concepts among healthcare teams are still undervalued. A lack of understanding of the significant adverse effects of compassion fatigue will negatively affect the quality of work, patient safety, and the nursing staff's mental and physical health. Acquiring compassion fatigue is unavoidable, although adopting healthy coping strategies to reduce and elevate it is addressed in such evidence-based research papers.

Objectives:

This study aimed to determine the Relationship between ‘Perceived Compassion Fatigue’ among ICU nurses and coping strategies as a transformation factor in an ICU environment.

Research Methodology:

This study was conducted at the Mohamed Bin Khalifa Specialist Cardiac Centre in Bahrain. Ethical approval of this study has been obtained from the Royal Medical Services and Mohamed Bin Khalifa Cardiac Centre (MKCC) Ethical approval committee. This qualitative study used a web-based questionnaire targeting all Intensive care unit nurses at MKCC, including all nurses currently working in the critical care unit or cardiac intensive care unit with less than one year of experience and up to 10 years of ICU nursing experience. This online survey used two valid tools: multidemintial fatigue inventory to measure tiredness among ICU staff and how it’s seriousness. In addition, ‘brief coping orientation to problems experienced inventory’, has been used to find out the methods and approaches that are effective in coping mechanisms among nurses.

Conclusion:

The analysis results will be presented to the department head, including principal nursing officers, charge nurses, head of training, the chairman of MLCC and the cardiac clinical psychologist. After discussion, recommendations will be given to the administrator and center director. The training department within MKCC will organize and carry out extra teaching and training.

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