In this podcast, Arleen discusses how healthcare workers can quickly slip into compassion fatigue. Managing the constant demands, internal and external stressors, and dealing with the trauma from serving during the pandemic can be overwhelming and exhausting.
Compassion fatigue, a condition related to the emotional and physical exhaustion by healthcare workers must be identified and managed effectively. During the pandemic, healthcare workers were forced to experience pain and suffering firsthand. Those feelings and experiences can replay over and over in your mind, or worse yet, settle deep within your heart.
When compassion fatigue goes untreated, it can lead to apathy or feeling disconnected from the patients you serve. It can prevent you from using your greatest superpower--healing others. The secret in preventing compassion fatigue is spotting the experiences that affect your ability to deliver care as it is intended--with empathy and compassion. Learn strategies to identify the cardinal signs that you are heading down the path of compassion fatigue. Create and develop a plan to manage through these feelings. It is 100% possible when you know what to look for.
