TY - JOUR T1 - Maintaining compassion and preventing compassion fatigue: a practical guide JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 170 LP - 174 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308582 VL - 101 IS - 4 AU - Anna Charlotte Baverstock AU - Fiona Olwen Finlay Y1 - 2016/08/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/4/170.abstract N2 - 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. ER -