A brief “quiet ego” workplace intervention to reduce compassion fatigue and improve health in hospital healthcare workers

•Four session hospital-based workshop setting used to introduce quiet ego concepts.•Brief cues used to remind employees of compassion-based values and perceptions.•Significant decrease in compassion fatigue reported over eight-week period.•Significant increases in self-rated health and cognitive rea...

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Published in:Applied nursing research 2019-10, Vol.49, p.80-85
Main Authors: Wayment, Heidi A., Huffman, Ann H., Eiler, Brian A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:•Four session hospital-based workshop setting used to introduce quiet ego concepts.•Brief cues used to remind employees of compassion-based values and perceptions.•Significant decrease in compassion fatigue reported over eight-week period.•Significant increases in self-rated health and cognitive reappraisal of stressors•Quiet ego reminders used in real-time provide in-the-moment stress-reduction.
ISSN:0897-1897
1532-8201
DOI:10.1016/j.apnr.2019.05.002