Nurse leader compassion fatigue contributes to role dissatisfaction and leader turnover,
staff turnover, low morale and engagement, safety, and satisfaction concerns. Both
staff and leader turnover lead to costs for recruitment, onboarding, orientation,
and staffing. Fifteen nurse leaders participated in a daily gratitude exercise, Three
Good Things, over an 8-week period. Three Good Things was found to be statistically
significant in increasing compassion satisfaction of this population. A practice of
gratitude fosters compassion satisfaction which is a protective factor against compassion
fatigue, and it is beneficial in increasing role satisfaction and decreasing turnover
in this population.
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Biography
Rebecca S. Chambers, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CENP, is a nursing leader for SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. She can be reached at [email protected]
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