How do you shake off the horrible?

[ixchel]

I had a horrible, gut-wrenching patient situation this week. The kind that left me, for the first time in my short nursing career, crying on the way home, and a couple of times since. How do you shake it? How do you just leave it behind?

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

I work Onc, so I see a lot of sad things. Pregnancy terminations to start chemo and leukemics my age dying are probably the ones that really get me in the gut. I do a lot of mindless distraction but also let myself cry if I need to.