title: Casualties of war: compassion fatigue and health care providers.
abstract: When exposure to traumatic events accumulates because of caring for the victims of the events, compassion fatigue occurs. Deployed military medical personnel, prone to its development, can prevent or mitigate the condition with individual and organizational intervention.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Army Cadet Command, Fort Monroe, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Della W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Stewart
mesh_terms: D000346:Afghanistan; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D008888:Military Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D012648:Self Care; D040921:Stress Disorders, Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States