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Compassion

Most people enter work in healthcare because they have a strong sense of compassion – that emotional response to someone’s pain or suffering and wanting to help them.

Why do we sometimes lose compassion in our journey in healthcare?

The Professional Quality of Life Scale can be found at https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/content/dam/socialwork/home/self-care-kit/compassion-satisfaction-and-fatigue-stamm-2009.pdf

It is worth having a look at this and thinking about your responses to these questions looking at compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.

A helpful podcast that explains compassion in more detail is the Somerset Emotional Wellbeing podcast episode on compassion.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-somerset-emotional-wellbeing-podcast/id1515287594?i=1000642771873

Finally if you want to delve into the evidence behind the need for more compassion in healthcare I can thoroughly recommend:
Compassionomics: The revolutionary scientific evidence that caring makes a difference. Studer Group 2019. Trzeciak and Mazzarelli or find out more on www.compassionomics.com

What are you going to spend 40 seconds doing to show your compassion today?

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