A Time to Heal: Taking a Break from Nursing After a Cancer Diagnosis
AJN Off the Charts
MAY 9, 2022
At the time I was working as a per diem home hospice nurse and I knew instinctively that I could not care well for dying patients when I was worried about dying myself. That is, I felt I owed it to my patients to take a leave of absence, but as a nurse I felt like a failure. Wasn’t I supposed to be invulnerable?
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