Nurses should be empathetic and compassionate healthcare professionals. However, what happens when nurses constantly devote their energy to compassionate care, without seeing the positive results or being able to regain energy through self-care? This would ultimately lead to compassion fatigue, which often results in impaired concentration and decreased performance, ultimately leading to poor quality of care. Prevention of compassion fatigue can be achieved through a solid foundation with a comprehensive education consisting of critical thinking skills, evidence-based practice, leadership, management, and delegation, which are only taught in baccalaureate nursing programs. Nurses and nursing students need to be reminded or taught that, to prevent compassion fatigue, they should not only take care of their patients but also themselves. All healthcare workers are at risk of compassion fatigue, especially nurses, as our profession is based on the compassionate approach. take care of the sick. An experience that illustrates this condition was when I helped in an intensive care unit (ICU). I remember a nurse I met who had many years of experience but had a reputation for being unfriendly and anal retentive. I greeted her every time I entered the unit, but she never responded. One day, this nurse was assigned to the son of a Chinese mother who did not speak English for whom I often served as a translator. Her son suffered from neuroleptic malignant syndrome and was recovering from abdominal surgery for ischemic bowel, which was infected. That day the mother ran to me with a worried look and told me that the nurse was hurting her son. He said he saw the nurse give him two intravenous (IV) medications through his neck (internal jugular, central venous…middle of paper…they have worked long and hard to advance their careers and should have a higher standard for education and provide quality care not only to patients, but also to themselves. Further attention to nurses' personal health and higher education will allow the nursing profession to advance with greater in the future integrity and credibility and will result in better healthcare for patients. References Silber, J. (2003 ). Educational levels of hospital nurses and mortality of surgical patients JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 290(12), 1617-1623. Boyle, D.A. (2011). -14 doi:10.3912/OJIN.Vol16No01Man02