What's the Third Law of a Healthy Workplace? Provide acceptable benefits to aid staff in practicing beneficial self-care.
One of the most important aspects of minimizing and coping with compassion fatigue, or “the cost of caring”, is to be sure to care for yourself along the way. This isn’t as easy as it sounds. The type of people drawn to veterinary medicine are typically selfless, in that they see the suffering of animals and they will expend every ounce of their energy on healing the sick and helping those suffering.