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The emotional cost of nursing

What are the costs of caring?

A new project in the School of Psychology explores nurses' experience of distress and aims to determine if empathy with patients is associated with traumatic experience in nurses. Researcher Jenny Watts said nurses can develop symptoms such as flashbacks, sleeping difficulty and emotional detachment which can have serious consequences for both their personal and professional lives.

She will be presenting her research at the Festival of Postgraduate Research which is taking place on Thursday 25th June in the Belvoir Suite, Charles Wilson Building at the University of Leicester

Miss Watts studied BSc psychology at the University of Stirling, in Scotland. After work experience gained within the National Health Service and Social Services she became intrigued by positive psychology and specifically research aiming to enhance the wellbeing of health professionals.

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