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Compassion fatigue in critical care nurses

An integrative review of the literature

Jalal Alharbi, Debra Jackson and Kim Usher
Saudi Medical Journal November 2019, 40 (11) 1087-1097; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.11.24569
Jalal Alharbi
From the School of Health (Alharbi, Usher), University of New England, Armidale and from the School of Health (Jackson), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
BSC, MPhil
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Debra Jackson
From the School of Health (Alharbi, Usher), University of New England, Armidale and from the School of Health (Jackson), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
PhD, FACN
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Kim Usher
From the School of Health (Alharbi, Usher), University of New England, Armidale and from the School of Health (Jackson), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
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vol. 40 no. 11 1087-1097
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.11.24569
PubMed 
31707404

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
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  • Received June 25, 2019
  • Accepted September 13, 2019
  • Published online November 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Jalal Alharbi, BSC, MPhil⇑,
  2. Debra Jackson, PhD, FACN and
  3. Kim Usher, FACN, FACMHN
  1. From the School of Health (Alharbi, Usher), University of New England, Armidale and from the School of Health (Jackson), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Jalal Alharbi, School of Health, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. E-mail: jalharbi{at}myune.edu.au ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3314-9365
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