Answer & Explanation:How Barnes-Jewish Hospital Trains Nurses to CopeThis
vignette in Chapter 7 explores Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which has been
ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the best hospitals in the
United States and as its top-rated hospital for St. Louis, Missouri.
The 1,258-bed not-for-profit hospital is part of the BJC HealthCare
chain, which serves patients in the St. Louis metropolitan area. A big
part of the Barnes-Jewish staff is its more than 2,500 full-time and 800
part-time registered nurses. A registered nurse comes to Barnes-Jewish
(or any other) hospital after extensive training in human health and
patient care. But one of the major challenges facing a nurse is not a
matter of deploying technical skills; it is how to cope with the day-in,
day-out experience of witnessing patients suffering and sometimes
death. Especially during periods when several of their patients have
poor outcomes, nurses can feel worn down by the stress. They can suffer
compassion fatigue, experienced as sadness, despair, and reduced
empathy. At worst, nurses health suffers, and they find themselves
avoiding certain patients and perhaps failing to deliver quality care
when they fail to notice or correctly interpret patients needs. A
commitment to high-quality care and concern for its nurses well-being
has led Barnes-Jewish to offer training in how to cope with stress and
avoid or recover from compassion fatigue. Read the vignette at the end
of Chapter 7 in your text and then answer the following questions.QuestionsIdentify
the training method used at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Identify any other
appropriate training methods that could have been used to address the
needs of the nurses.State how the approach to training at Barnes-Jewish aligns with the organizations needs.
