Fifth Window Presents at Healthcare Burnout Symposium

On Monday, January 24, 2022, our co-founders Charlene Platon and Kathryn Shaffer presented a pre-conference workshop at the Stop Healthcare Burnout Symposium. The workshop, “Caring for the Caregiver: Understanding Compassion Fatigue and Opportunities to Heal,” was presented in collaboration with Stephen DiDonato, Ph.D., LPC, and Debbie Lyn Toomey, MSN, RN, CIPP, FIEL. To learn more about their presentation, please see the workshop information below:

Caring for the Caregiver: Understanding Compassion Fatigue and Opportunities to Heal

• Charlene Platon, MS, RN, FNP-BC, Director of Ambulatory Nursing, Stanford Health Care, Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellow, CEO & Co-Founder, Fifth Window

• Kathryn Shaffer, EdD, RN, MSN, CNE, CCFP, FNAP, Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University; Co-Founder, Fifth Window

• Stephen DiDonato, Ph.D., LPC, Assistant Professor, Co-director, Jefferson Trauma Education Network (J-TEN)
  Deputy Director, Jefferson Center for Injury Research & Prevention

• Debbie Lyn Toomey, MSN, RN, CIPP, FIEL, Ultimate Healing Journey, LLC

According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019), 35-54% of nurses and physicians in the United States have symptoms of burnout. Safe spaces are crucial for nurses to talk about their fears and anxiety. In the promotion of their mental wellbeing, it is critical for our healthcare workers to understand burnout and compassion fatigue during these unprecedented times, and be equipped with self-care practices to heal. Without these safe spaces and tools, we will see the effects of mental exhaustion on nurses and healthcare workers for years to come.

This interactive workshop will create a safe space to explore the definition of burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, the signs of chronic stress and anxiety on caregivers, and some resources to mitigate caregiver fatigue and restore resilience

• Recall definitions of compassion fatigue, burnout, and satisfaction.

• Review signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and chronic stress

• Identify one evidence-based tool to help mitigate compassion fatigue and burnout

• Utilize the ProQoL scale to increase compassion satisfaction

To learn more, please visit the Stop Healthcare Burnout Symposium website.