Compassion fatigue: Are you at risk?

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-28

  Bush, Nancy Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CARE;

ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; SELF CARE;

EID: 58149495124     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.ONF.24-28     Document Type: Article

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