Question

What is the concept analysis of emapathy weariness?

Answer 1

Empathy nature is something that helps nurses to execute their job by getting involved with patients feeling and emotions. This helps them to feel their patient pain and in that way they can understand patients in a most suitable way. But similarly being empathy in nature can make feel nurses emotionally tired as in some situations they get attached with patients and can feel their pain more. Continous exposure to emotional stress can make them start getting detached with human emotions. The term compassion fatigue is much seen in case of health care workers and can lead to extreme stage of hopelessness, sleeplessness, stress and anxiety etc.

Preventions includes:

1. Practising stress reducing exercises and maintaing a balanced social and work life.

2. Social support from family and work environment example colleague, team members can help to maintain a positive psycological state.

3. Can opt for training which help health care workers to control on their anxiety and emotions.