Do nurses who practice stress management and utilize coping mechanisms experience less compassion fatigue than nurses that do not?
To better understand compassion fatigue, its effects on nurses and how to initiate strategies which help one cope better two research studies performed on compassion fatigue have been identified and reviewed. To guide the research of this paper a PICOT questions was first formulated. The PICOT questions ask Do nurses who practice stress management and utilize coping mechanisms experience less compassion fatigue than nurses that do not?
