“…Compassion fatigued nurses would exhibit apathy, depression, errors in clinical judgement, sleep disorders, hypertension, feeling of impotence, irritation and emotional suppression, and even poor quality of work, being determinant in patient safety and quality of care and compromising a compassionate care [13,15]. High levels of compassion fatigue have recently been reported in several nursing specialties, such as emergency nurses [16,17], heart and vascular nurses [18], oncology nurses [19,20], midwives [21], critical care nurses [22], or pediatric nurses [23], and in samples from different countries, including Australia [24,25], Canada [26], Ireland [27], South Africa [28], the UK [29], or the US [30][31][32].…”