PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Baverstock, Anna Charlotte AU - Finlay, Fiona Olwen TI - Maintaining compassion and preventing compassion fatigue: a practical guide AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308582 DP - 2016 Aug 01 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - 170--174 VI - 101 IP - 4 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/4/170.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/4/170.full SO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed2016 Aug 01; 101 AB - Compassion is innate in us as human beings. Compassion can be defined as a deep awareness of the suffering of another individual, coupled with the wish to relieve it. It has been increasingly topical, recently, in situations where an apparent breathtaking absence of compassion has allowed great harm to come to patients. So, how do we sustain compassion and prevent this loss? Central to our ability to maintain compassion is how we look after ourselves and those in our teams.