And Other Things Nurses Will Never Say... Every good care plan starts with an assessment. The first tool we use at CODE YOU is a compassion fatigue assessment. Have you heard of compassion fatigue? Do you know the difference between it and burnout? We sometimes use these terms interchangeably but, they are different. Burnout, a term coined in the early 1980s, describes the physical and emotional exhaustion that workers can experience when they have low job satisfaction and

Discovering a Sense of Presence in the Midst of Pain and Chaos I just finished my three months probationary as an RN, and I had one of...