Compassion Fatigue, Compassion Satisfaction and Job Burnout in Emergency Department Nurses: A Systematic Review Study
akhlāq-i pizishkī i.e., Medical Ethics,
Vol. 17 No. 48 (1402),
21 August 2023
,
Page 1-11
https://doi.org/10.22037/mej.v17i48.43748
Abstract
Background and Aim: In today's modern society, work-related stress has been accepted as a job threat which can reduce compassion satisfaction and cause compassion fatigue. Healthcare providers in critical care and emergency departments may experience high levels of compassion fatigue and job burnout, which will lead to an impaired quality of professional life. The nurses who experience higher levels of compassion satisfaction have more protective resources to deal with the negative consequences of job stress and will be able to use coping mechanisms to prevent compassion fatigue while dealing with traumatized individuals. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and job burnout in emergency nurses and the influential factors.
Methods: The present research is a systematic review which was conducted in Iran in 2023. Searching was performed without a time limit until October 2023 and using the keywords compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, job burnout and emergency nurse in the international databases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct and EMBASE, as well as the national ones including Iranmedex, Magiran, SID and Irandoc. The articles which were in line with the aim of this research and written in Farsi or English were included in the study. JBI checklist was used to evaluate the quality of the articles.
Ethical Considerations: In all the stages of writing the present research, honesty and trustworthiness has been observed while respecting the originality of the texts.
Results: In the initial search, 412 studies were obtained, which were reduced to 77 after the first screening, based on the title and the abstract of the articles. In the next step, screening the articles based on their full text, seven articles meeting the inclusion criteria were selected. Based on the results of the included studies, emergency nurses have moderate to high levels of compassion fatigue, job burnout and secondary traumatic stress, as well as moderate to high levels of compassion satisfaction. Furthermore, factors such as empathy, job satisfaction, self-compassion, as well as organizational and management support significantly predict compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction in these nurses.
Conclusion: Providing strategies to improve knowledge and awareness of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and job burnout can prevent emotional burnout in emergency nurses and help identify interventions to keep nurses empathetic and compassionate in their profession.
- Nurses
- Job Burnout
- Compassion Fatigue
- Compassion Satisfaction
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