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lines to the right of the URL bar at the top of your browserSpeaking specific to emergency service and public safety careers, there are many factors that contribute to compassion fatigue. This includes organizational issues, operational issues, and societal issues.
Organizational factors:
- Low pay
- High case loads
- Agency bureaucracy
- Unreasonable, authoritarian command staff
- Turnover, recruitment and retention
- Lack of training
Operational factors:
- Exposure to continual confrontation
- Exposure to uglier parts of humanity
- Motor vehicle fatalities & death notifications
- Exposure to preventable death & destruction
- Lack of justice in the world
- Hypervigilance roller-coaster
- At times conflicting and constantly changing roles
- Public maintains high expectations for performance
- Public scrutiny
- High demands
Societal factors:
- How society views you
- How the media portrays you
- Inconsistencies of the criminal justice system
- Intense scrutiny