Self-Care Strategies to Enhance Caring

Abstract

An increasing amount of information suggests there are positive financial, productivity, patient, and staff satisfaction outcomes associated with creating cultures of effective caring. These data cannot be ignored and form a call to action. For example, a critical topic that has emerged is compassion fatigue (CF). What can be done to avoid experiencing the negative impacts of workaholism, compassion fatigue, stress, and lack of energy and innovation in the workplace? Peter Drucker said it best: “Your foremost job as a leader is to raise your own energy level and then help orchestrate the energies of those around you.” An increasing amount of information suggests there are positive financial, productivity, patient, and staff satisfaction outcomes associated with creating cultures of effective caring. These data cannot be ignored and form a call to action. For example, a critical topic that has emerged is compassion fatigue (CF). What can be done to avoid experiencing the negative impacts of workaholism, compassion fatigue, stress, and lack of energy and innovation in the workplace? Peter Drucker said it best: “Your foremost job as a leader is to raise your own energy level and then help orchestrate the energies of those around you.”