Compassion fatigue and burnouts affect the health care provider in not only terms of their job satisfaction but also high staff turnover rate and decreased productivity. Such occurrences cost the healthcare systems and the quality of healthcare provided to the clients as it increases the need for the recruitment of more healthcare providers to bridge the gaps (Berne, 2001)
Among the strategies I would adopt to prevent and manage effectively, compassionate fatigue is establishing a balance between work and life. Achieving a system of balance between work and life needs allow for effective management of crisis before they occur, therefore, eliminating the occurrence of compassionate fatigue and burnouts (Campling & Sharpe, 2008)
However, empathetic health care providers often become the victims of continued stress associated with meeting patients and their significant others needs such as their families. Extreme cases of continued stress results in burnouts and compassion fatigue (Matzo & Sherman, 2010)
On the other hand, burnout refers to the syndrome of one's emotional exhaustion, reduced achievement of the desired professional and personal objectives, and depersonalization. Factors such as personality characteristics, work or organizational characteristics, and attitudes related to the workplace have been identified by various researches to contribute to burnouts among the healthcare providers (Read & Parks, 2014)
, good communication) between the patient and the doctor (Lesage, 123). Technologies and Issues when Monitoring Older Adults In the future -- given recent healthcare reforms and because there is greater emphasis on home care for the elderly -- geriatric providers are going to need to have "…alternative ways of monitoring disease, activity, response to therapy and patient safety" (Kang, et al
As to the first group of 26 caregivers (average age, 63.2 years), who had spent an average of 65 months giving care to a relative with dementia, they indicated a willingness to try technologies but "…had no interest in becoming 'technology whizzes'" (Kinney, 2006, 64)
Ethical Challenges in the Care of Seriously Ill Patients Clearly the development of assisting technologies give doctors and nurses additional tools with which to help aged people continue their lives; but there are serious ethical concerns that have been raised regarding those technologies. In the peer-reviewed journal Pain Medicine the authors discuss the "delicate balance between the technical aspects and the humanistic aspects of care" (Lesage, et al
It was concluded that the diagnosis of YOD has a great impact on spouses, considered as worries of dependency, concern and a greater level of depression, particularly in the spouses of those with front temporal lobar degeneration. The Impact of Early Dementia Diagnosis and Intervention on Informal Caregivers (de Vugt and Verhey, 2013)
The caregivers had significantly lower levels of satisfaction and quality of life, leading for the researchers to urge for stronger support mechanisms for them and greater education as to how their burden and responsibilities can be alleviated. "Quality of Life and Depression in Carers of Patients with Early Onset Dementia" (Rosness et al
, 2010). "Caregivers' perspectives on the pre-diagnostic period in early onset dementia: a long and winding road" (van Vliet et al
, 2010). "Caregivers' perspectives on the pre-diagnostic period in early onset dementia: a long and winding road" (van Vliet et al
uk). Interventions for three issues reflected in this paper One: As to a possible intervention for "One" in this paper, the European Journal of Neurology suggests that "…the social costs for hospice care are lower than conventional therapies" (Congedo, et al
¶ … caregivers face when it comes to differentiating between dementia, delirium, and depression due to overlap of depression and delirium in older people. Some symptoms that accompany depression are also pronounced in dementia (Peacock, Hopton, Featherstone & Jill, 2012)
"Health literacy" is an important phrase when it comes to a nurse's job vis-a-vis training family members to be good caregivers in the home. Health literacy is the "…degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information" (Nigolian, et al