Location
Thesis Presentation- Waters College of Health Professions
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis Presentation (Open Access)
Faculty Mentor
Professor Amber Derksen
Faculty Mentor Email
amberderksen@georgiasouthern.edu
Presentation Year
2020
Start Date
4-2020 12:00 AM
End Date
5-2020 12:00 AM
Keywords
Georgia Southern University, Honors Program, Thesis Presentation
Description
Empathy, a core characteristic of nurses, has been shown to increase levels of compassion fatigue and potentially decrease quality of life in nursing students. This study explores the relationship between empathy and its effects on compassion fatigue and quality of life in Bachelor of Science Nursing Students utilizing the ProQOL tool.
Academic Unit
Waters College of Health Professions
The Effects of Empathy on Compassion Fatigue and Quality of Life in Bachelor of Science Nursing Students
Thesis Presentation- Waters College of Health Professions
Empathy, a core characteristic of nurses, has been shown to increase levels of compassion fatigue and potentially decrease quality of life in nursing students. This study explores the relationship between empathy and its effects on compassion fatigue and quality of life in Bachelor of Science Nursing Students utilizing the ProQOL tool.
Comments
This work is archived and distributed under the repository's standard copyright and reuse license, available here. Under this license, end-users may copy, store, and distribute this work without restriction. For questions related to additional reuse of this work, please contact the copyright owner.