Fatiga por compasión entre profesionales de la salud en los cuidados al fin de vida: una revisión documental.

Abstract

Health professionals linked to end-of-life processes are exposed to an emotional overload that can negatively affect their quality of life. Therefore, the objective of this article is to identify and analyze in the academic literature, the approach to compassion fatigue present in health personnel who provide care and attention to patients in the end-of-life process. The research was carried out through a documentary search in different databases and official pages to achieve a bibliographic analysis. The results obtained show a high level of compassion fatigue in professionals linked to the palliative care area, resulting in the nursing staff being the group most affected. Therefore, as a conclusion, the need to generate spaces for approach and intervention with the personnel in question is proposed and to highlight the responsibility of the medical centers and hospitals for training and psychoeducation of the personnel in order to minimize the negative effects.