Professional Quality of Life in Nurses: Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue

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Nurses as facilitators are experiencing various painful experiences throughout their working life. These experienceshave both positive and negative consequences and they affect the nurses’ professional quality of life. The professionalquality of life has two dimensions: compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue. The aim of this study is to discussthe concepts of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, which are indicative of the professional quality of life,the developmental process of these situations, the physical and mental changes in the nurses, and the situations thatcan affect the professional quality of life. Studies show that compassion fatigue is increasing steadily; this reduces thenurses’ professional quality of life