nforsee

I am very familiar with death being a friend. I realized that with the death of my mom she ask me not to pray for God to keep her alive but for God to do what was right and I did and she died. With that in mind I knew then that mom wanted to be released from the pain she was having to "live" with. I have always kept my composure and maintained a professional appearance for the family, however, I have empathy for the family and recognize the pain they are feeling and that is when I become emotional ( teary eyed and kinda depressed).

I am wondering if you think a nurse who may become emotional when they lose a patient would be "unfit" as a nurse. Knowing me I am an emotional person and have been doing home care for many years. I have lost a few of the people I care for and it always affected me; not to the point that I was hestarical and unable to perform the duties I was expected to. SO I am wanting some input on others opinions about this since my father seems to think I may not be a good nurse since I allow it to affect me when people I am caring for die. I personally feel that if I did not care and was not affected by the loss of life then I am persuing the wrong profession. I did tell my father that a hit man is the only profession I know of that requires you to be unemotional about the loss of life he said I was just being an A hole