0 Braccia, Deborah 2005 ONS News 20 p6 GRIEF, COMPASSION, BURN out (Psychology), FATIGUE, JOB stress, BEREAVEMENT, NURSES The article provides several tips to avoid burnout from chronic grief and compassion fatigue. Chronic grief is the accumulation of unresolved grief because of the inability to grieve over one loss before another loss occurs and this can contribute to job burnout and turnover in the oncology nursing profession. Compassion fatigue is a condition like secondary traumatic stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder that can result from nurses' constant need to give and support others. Avoiding chronic grief may involve resolution of losses, or restructuring. http://search.ebscohost.com.liboff.ohsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=18426100&site=ehost-live