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01-05-2018 | From the Inside

Burnout, boreout and compassion fatigue on the ICU: it is not about work stress, but about lack of existential significance and professional performance

Author: Erwin J. O. Kompanje

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A 27-year-old ICU nurse mailed me if she could have a private talk with me. ‘Outside the hospital and about her work on the ICU,’ she wrote. …

Title: Burnout, boreout and compassion fatigue on the ICU: it is not about work stress, but about lack of existential significance and professional performance
Author: Erwin J. O. Kompanje
Publication date: 01-05-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5083-2