Filipino nurse confidential: Battling ‘compassionate fatigue’, homesickness and language barriers
It was when a co-worker brought her ten-month-old baby to the office that something triggered inside Doris Butawan’s psyche. The sight of the baby–so similar in age to her own baby boy back in the Philippines–made Butawan, a Filipino nurse working abroad, sob uncontrollably for hours. Butawan had been in London, England, for all of […]