Compassion Fatigue

Critics are slamming the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s new model for care delivery, saying it is really a way to replace registered nurses with less- qualified care aides.

Although nurses are taught to maintain emotional distance from patients, the "line between a professional and personal relationship with a patient can become blurred," RN Sarah Horstmann wrote on the New York Times' "Well" blog last week.

Sunnybrook’s parent co-ordinator guides families through the difficult early days of caring for premature infants

After a long career in ophthalmology, a parade of memories reminds me of the impact I’ve had on patients’ lives, and their impact on mine

When it’s time for a brief stretching break, clinical nurse manager Jan Powers joins her staff for gentle exercises in the hallway at Georgetown University Hospital's Lombardi Cancer Center. Nurses often confront the limits of care, especially with terminally ill patients.