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A Time to Heal: Taking a Break from Nursing After a Cancer Diagnosis

AJN Off the Charts

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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Taking Care of Our Own

Red M.D.

I was in the midst of my hospice and palliative medicine fellowship, rotating at the local inpatient hospice facility where Dr. Bob had come to die. Several weeks passed and a gift from Dr. Gus’ family, a pocket-sized book by Dr. Seuss, appeared at my workstation in the ICU. John, later in my fellowship year.

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