Graded APA Paper
o Your topic is “How Secondary Traumatic Stress (caring for a patient who dies) affects the nurse’s ability to continue to work ([professional] compassion fatigue)”.
Add how they coped if mentioned.
▪ You can use articles related to Nurses working with COVID patients
▪ it must be Secondary Traumatic Stress (witnessing/ caring for someone else dying) and it has to be from the professional’s perspective, not the spouse, family or friend.
o 4-6 pages
o Minimum of 3 current (5 years or less) evidenced based articles (fact sheets and blogs are not evidenced based articles, but can be used as a 4th source, as can your textbook)
-Full Articles must be submitted with the paper, these can of course be PDFs
o No abstract is needed.
o APA format is necessary, use the APA 7th edition guidelines.
Write an essay about how witnessing patients die affects nurses’ ability to keep working, focusing on secondary traumatic stress (STS) and professional compassion fatigue, particularly in the context of caring for COVID-19 patients. Use articles about nurses working with COVID patients. The stress should be from seeing others die, not personal loss. It should be from the nurse’s point of view, not their family or friends. Make it 4-6 pages long, and use at least 3 recent articles for evidence. These articles should be from the last 5 years. Include the full articles with your paper. Discuss how nurses cope with STS and compassion fatigue, specifically in the context of caring for COVID-19 patients. No abstract is needed, but use APA format according to the 7th edition guidelines.
