Sunday November 10th, at 6pm PST at #NurseUp we will be discussing
burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress disorder.
In case you missed this tweetchat, here are the transcripts to our conversation.
As of 2012, just over a
quarter of all adults within the United States are caregivers for their elder
parents, costing an average of 3 trillion dollars a years in lost wages,
pensions, and social security as a result of their tardiness, absenteeism, or leaving
the workforce all together. This is because 1 in 6 caregivers in America
hold full-time or part-time employment. Given the aging population and increase
in the need for caregivers, an understanding of the risk of compassion fatigue
among nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for elderly relatives
is particularly urgent.
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