GULFPORT, Miss., Jan. 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Is compassion an important aspect in the practice of nursing? A dedicated nurse and author answers the same question in this enlightening book. Released through Xlibris, Deborah J. Mauffray's Compassion in Nursing: Is It Necessary? is designed to encourage nurses to be more willing to share not only their expertise, but also their compassion in their line of duty.
According to Mauffray, compassion is truly a part of the caring-healing model of nursing. However, nurses are human as well, and they can only take the day-to-day encounters with death and dying and healing the sick for so long without developing compassion fatigue. Caregivers experience this emotional drain usually after caring for another with a progressive illness.
Having experienced compassion fatigue herself, Mauffray shares this book with laypeople in the communities and cities to help them understand why compassion may not be evident in nurses every day. Featured in Compassion in Nursing: Is It Necessary? are the results of a survey conducted by the author, showing the kind of personal experiences people may have had with health care providers, as well as stories they shared regarding those experiences. Examples of compassion in the Bible can also be found in this book.
"Hopefully, this book will give nurses a reminder that we are in this business to take care of people when they are ill and sometimes that means they are dying. But on the other hand, people in the community will have a better understanding of nursing and give them ideas of the daily stressors that can be encountered in nursing," Mauffray says.
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About the Author
Deborah Mauffray is a registered nurse who works at the VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System in Biloxi, MS. She received her Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and her Master's of Science degree in nursing as a clinical nurse specialist in Adult Health with an emphasis in diabetes care. She has been a Wound, Ostomy and Continence (WOC) nurse for almost twenty-eight years and has been a nurse for over thirty-two years. She is married and has two children, an adopted niece, and five grandchildren. She and her husband, Verlon, make their home in Pass Christian, MS.
Compassion in Nursing: Is It Necessary?
by Deborah J. Mauffray, RN, MSN, CNS, CWOCN
Publication Date: January 8, 2010
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