Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow: Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue

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Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow This page intentionally left blank Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue Wendy Austin • E. Sharon Brintnell • Erika Goble • Leon Kagan Linda Kreitzer • Denise J. Larsen • Brendan Leier This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Lying down in the ever falling snow : Canadian health professionals’ experience of compassion fatigue / Wendy Austin ... [et al.]. Includes bibliographical references. Issued also in electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-55458-888-6 1. Medical personnel—Mental health—Canada—Case studies. 2. Medical personnel—Job stress— Case studies. 3. Secondary traumatic stress—Canada—Case studies. 4. Secondary traumatic stress. 5. Compassion. I. Austin, Wendy, 1947– RC451.4.M44L94 2013 616.85’21 C2012-907194-3 ——— Electronic monographs. Issued also in print format. ISBN 978-1-55458-889-3 (PDF).—ISBN 978-1-55458-890-9 (EPUB) 1. Medical personnel—Mental health—Canada—Case studies. 2. Medical personnel—Job stress— Case studies. 3. Secondary traumatic stress—Canada—Case studies. 4. Secondary traumatic stress. 5. Compassion. I. Austin, Wendy, 1947– RC451.4.M44L94 2013 616.85’21 C2012-907195-1 Cover design by Blakeley Words+Pictures. Front-cover photograph by Erika Goble. Text design by Janette Thompson (Jansom).© 2013 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario, Canada www.wlupress.wlu.ca Lyrics from “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” by Frank Loesser, © 1948 (Renewed) Frank Music Corp., from the motion picture Neptune’s Daughter, are reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Coporation. All rights reserved. Excerpt from Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam, © 2006 Vincent Lam, is reprinted by permission of Doubleday Canada. The poem “Canadian January Night,” by Alden Nowlan, from Selected Poems (1971), is reprinted by permission of House of Anansi, http://www.houseofanansi.com. Except from “Ethical Openings in Palliative Care Home Practice,” by Anna Santos Salas and Brenda L. Cameron, from Nursing Ethics 17, no. 2 (2010), is reproduced by permission of Sage Publications. This book is printed on FSC recycled paper and is certified Ecologo. It is made from 100% post-consumer fibre, processed chlorine free, and manufactured using biogas energy. Printed in Canada Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright licence, visit http://www .accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777. ...