Nursing faculty are clinicians at heart. We were trained to notice suffering and respond to it. That instinct doesn’t switch off when we trade a stethoscope for a syllabus. It just gets pointed at a new population, often without the structures that made it sustainable in practice: shift ends, handoffs, a team down the hall. That’s how compassion fatigue settles in.

This post is specifically for APRNs who are maintaining a clinical practice and a faculty role simultaneously. Whether you're adjunct faculty teaching one clinical course, a full-time faculty member maintaining a part-time clinical practice, or somewhere in between, this one is for you.