Testing of a Caregiver Support Team

Healthcare clinicians endure stress and often for long periods of time. The burden of witnessing death and disability, mastering complex of work duties, long and irregular hours, the threats of errors, and tensions between colleagues result in emotional strain, anxiety, depression, burnout and in the worst case: suicide.1-5 The residual symptoms from exposure to workplace stress may result in second victim syndrome. The second victim is defined as: “…a health care provider involved in an unanticipated adverse patient event, medical error and/or a patient-related injury who becomes victimized in the sense that the provider is traumatized by the event.” 6

Source: Explore - July 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Patricia Graham, Giovanna Zerbi, William Norcross, Lori Montross-Thomas, Judy Davidson, Linda Lobbestael Tags: Research Letter Source Type: research