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Can you help me to understand as I am having trouble with the following section 5.2 of my studies concerning evidence-based practice:

• Describe how you would apply the evidence to improve nursing practice. Explain your answer.
• Discuss ways that would disseminate research-based evidence; how would you share with your peers? Include thoughts on why it is important for to be involved in communicating and applying nursing research evidence.
  • Section 5.2 Compassion fatigue, burnout and compassion satisfaction
    • Compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction are outcomes relevant to caring in nursing (Jakimowicz et al., 2018; Johnson-Coyle et al., 2016; Stamm, 2005). Compassion satisfaction is a positive result of caring, where nurses gain pleasure by providing quality care to patients. Yet, compassion fatigue and burnout can manifest in nurses as irritability, lack of compassion, and insensitivity towards work and patients, which are negative results of caring (Dikmen et al., 2016). In general, this study result indicated that most of the participating critical care nurses possessed compassion satisfaction; unfortunately, they were at risk towards compassion fatigue and near at risk for burnout. The risk for compassion fatigue and burnout can be attributed to nurses' employment in critical care areas. Nurses in critical care units dedicate to providing continuous care for patients in stressful, critical and severe healthcare situations. Because critical care nurses constantly are engaged in providing caring and continuous, intense contact to patients, this population is likely to feel burn out and compassion fatigue (Sacco et al., 2015). The study results are consistent with other studies (Kelly et al., 2015; Sacco et al., 2015) investigating compassion fatigue, burnout and compassion satisfaction among critical care nurses. Kelly et al.'s and Sacco et al.'s studies found that most of the critical care nurses experienced compassion satisfaction but were at risk for burnout and near risk for compassion fatigue. In a highly stressful and fast-paced environment of critical care units, it is expected that registered nurses may experience compassion fatigue and burnout due to workload and highly demanded nursing care from patients and family (Sacco et al., 2015). In addition to the stressful environment of critical care units, a critical care nurse is usually responsible for caring one to four critically ill patients and may work numerous hours each week on all different shifts. The potential risk for critical care nurses to develop compassion fatigue and burnout in this selected healthcare system should be acknowledged and addressed to avoid negative consequences for nurses and patients.