Mother Theresa Post Graduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences, Puducherry
Compassion Fatigue is the natural consequence of caring intensely for traumatized people experienced by the nurses which seems to be the price paid by the nurses for caring. This term being first used in 1992 is now becoming more popular urging nurses to recognize their risk of developing compassion fatigue and to plan out ways to fight it at the earliest to safeguard their interest and to continue to function as compassionate nurses.
Compassion fatigue, burnout, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
