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Interviews were documented through handwritten notes, expanded into digital format within 24\u2009h, and complemented by observational notes. Data were analysed manually, without the use of qualitative data analysis software. Data analysis was performed in accordance with Colaizzi's seven\u2010stage phenomenological analysis method, including identifying meaningful statements, formulating meanings, developing thematic clusters and validating findings through participant feedback.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among the primary themes of compassion fatigue, 3 secondary themes emerged: emotional strain with regard to a sense of powerlessness, incompetence and guilt as a result of intense empathic involvement, emotional transformation in terms of waning empathetic engagement and distancing from others' feelings and adaptation and self\u2010defence including coping methods such as setting an emotional distance, increasing one's psychic distance from sources of exposure or re\u2010creating work\u2010life balance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Compassion fatigue in the emergency department is a dynamic process, which is initiated with empathy and encumbrance of emotional stress over time will transform the nurse's emotion and care giving. These results emphasize the need for context\u2010sensitive and nurse\u2010focused intervention to enhance the emotional resilience of nurses. Framing these interventions around a structured well\u2010being model such as PERMA may offer healthcare organizations a practical, multidimensional pathway for sustaining nurses' emotional resilience and safeguarding compassionate care in high\u2010acuity settings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Reporting Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This qualitative phenomenological study followed the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) checklist (see Supplementary Appendix ).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Patient and Public Contribution<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Nurses who had cared for patients within high\u2010acuity clinical environments were included in interviews, providing experiential knowledge that informed the data analysis and supported the clinical relevance of findings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Impact<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among nurses working in challenging clinical settings, compassion fatigue remains an underdeveloped threat to both nurse well\u2010being and the sustainability of high\u2010quality patient care. Findings of the study illustrates how compassion fatigue evolves out of cumulative emotional strain and how nurses actively manage this by developing emotional boundaries and creating self\u2010protection strategies in order to remain functional within difficult care situations. By shining a spotlight on these lived experiences, the findings highlight the value of organizational awareness and nurse\u2010led supportive interventions in nurturing emotional resilience, safeguarding compassionate care and promoting workforce retention in clinical nursing practice.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jocn.70592","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,13]],"date-time":"2026-10-13T05:17:46Z","timestamp":1791868666000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["From Empathy to Exhaustion: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study on Compassion Fatigue in Emergency Department Nurses"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1371-9458","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"\u0130lknur","family":"Tura","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Surgical Nursing Cukurova University  Adana Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6519-864X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sevilay","family":"Erden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Surgical Nursing Cukurova University  Adana Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_15_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jonm.12138"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598\u2010025\u201014792\u20105"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jen.2025.05.003"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apnu.2010.05.005"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/JTN.0000000000000171"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/HNP.0000000000000540"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejon.2026.103114"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0969733019889400"},{"key":"e_1_2_15_10_1","first-page":"48","volume-title":"Existential\u2010Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology","author":"Colaizzi P. 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