I read threads on stress management in nursing, and one piece of advise I see many times is to not think about work on you time off, or in other words, "leave work at work".
For those of you who do this, how do you do it? Is it something you consciously do, or is it an automatic habit?
If I have had a good day at work and leave with the patients in as good or better condition than I found them, and feel I performed my best, then leaving work at work is easy.
Those difficult days when I doubt my judgement, or the patients did not do well, then I tend to brood. It is hard to let go without some analysis, critique, and turning over events in the mind sometimes.
Do you brood, or are you able to shut work out after work?
