What is wellbeing and why do we care? Veterinary medicine is a high emotionally stressing career with a less than average career span of seven years! This talk will focus particularly on the stressful care involving veterinary anaesthesia. It is important to be able to recognize and identify compassion fatigue and burn out. Within this presentation we will review these common phrases, review ways to identify compassion fatigue and burn out and redefine our meaning of professionalism to preserve our anesthetic career paths. Resource and ideas will be provided to the audience involving management, teamwork, and personal improvements to optimize our job satisfaction and minimize compassion fatigue and burn out.
