CHAIN MEDIATIONS OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION EFFICACY BETWEEN ROLE STRESS AND COMPASSION FATIGUE: INSIGHTS FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Chain mediations of perceived social support and emotional regulation efficacy between role stress and compassion fatigue: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic

BackgroundNurses at the frontline faced high risks of the COVID-19 infection, undertook heavy workloads of patient care, and experienced tremendous stress that often led to compassion fatigue.AimThis study was to explore the role of positive psychosocial resources (i.e., perceived social support and emotional regulation efficacy) in the relationshi

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Patient referral patterns and the spread of hospital-acquired infections through national health care networks.

Rates of hospital-acquired infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly used as quality indicators for hospital hygiene.Alternatively, these rates may vary between hospitals, because hospitals differ in admission and referral of potentially colonized patients.We assessed p1006-1420eg if different referral

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