title: Tips on building resilience and improving well-being.
abstract: Poor staff retention in emergency nursing is unsurprising given that nurses who work in emergency departments (EDs) can often experience compassion fatigue, burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder. Can a passion for a profession that involves so much illness, trauma and death be enough to sustain people through their working days?
authors.affiliation: Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.|School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Liz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Crowe
mesh_terms: D000068376:Compassion Fatigue / Q000517:prevention & control; D016529:Emergency Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D016272:Occupational Health; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control