How often do you find yourself on the edge of compassion fatigue (with your family, your friends, your coworkers, your patients, your clients)? Do you think they can read it in your face? What can you do to be sure you have the emotional reserves to do what you need to do? Multiple environmental stressors, such as expanding workload and long hours, coupled with responding to complex patient needs/desires, results in nurses feeling fatigued, depressed, detached, ineffective, irritated, and apathetic at times (Bush, 2009). Often, these stressors produce physical symptoms, which include headaches, insomnia, and gastrointestinal distress (Bush, 2009). This phenomenon appeared to escalate gradually over time as a result of cumulative stress, particularly when nurses ignored their symptoms...