Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing: Enhancing Professional Quality of Life, 3rd Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780826155283 ISBN-10: 0826155286 Copyright: 2025 Edition: 3rd Author: Todaro-Franceschi, Vidette Doody's Expert Review    Score: 99 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Pamela Harris-Haman,  DNP, APRN, NNP-BC  (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Description This book discusses compassion fatigue and burnout in nurses. It touches on many aspects of topics including incivility, moral distress, and caring for challenging patients. The book also delves into transforming health care and changing mindsets in nursing. The previous edition was published in 2019. Purpose Quality health care is necessary for people in society to thrive. Quality health care cannot exist without nurses. Therefore, nurses need to transform the healthcare settings where they work, creating environments that support the rendering of quality care. These are worthy objectives. With the increasing number of nurses leaving the profession and dissatisfaction, corrective action needs to be taken. Audience This book's primary audience is nurses, however the material is presented in such a way that it can be applied to any level in nursing, from students, to advanced practice, to academia. The book meets the needs of the audience. The book would benefit from more coverage for the academic audience. The author is a credible expert. The materials presented are consistent with other material about civility, compassion, and burnout. The author has previously published on the topics covered in this book. Features The book covers topics related to nursing quality of life or work life balance, compassion and caring, and recognizing burnout and compassion fatigue. It also covers the areas of bullying and incivility. The book includes peer to peer, patient to care provider, and academic settings and perspectives. The book provides ways to begin cultivating new mind sets in order to move forward in the profession. The topics covered are insightful and include enjoyable quotations from various authors and speakers. The title is appropriate, but there is no online content available. Assessment The topics included in this book are of great interest to me. I have been reviewing literature related to compassion and civility for the past two years and find this book to be and added resource of great benefit. The topics present are important for us to discuss and learn about so that we may heal ourselves so we may heal others. The addition of the impact of COVID on the profession and real-life examples make this a needed edition. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book 5 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2025 Doody Enterprises, Inc.