RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
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
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 170
OP 174
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308582
VO 101
IS 4
A1 Anna Charlotte Baverstock
A1 Fiona Olwen Finlay
YR 2016
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/4/170.abstract
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.