A Nurse Cannot Hide Their Tears Sometimes
When you’re a nurse, you know that every day you’ll touch a life, or a life will touch you
Is crying common for a new nurse? If you cry and feel overwhelmed, this mean you were not destined to be a nurse?
Nurses do not always prefer to discuss this topic because crying might make individuals feel weak and vulnerable. Nonetheless, this happens, so I wanted to discuss it and offer advice on coping with it.
Why Do Nurses Cry?
Nurses can cry for several reasons. For starters, being a nurse exposes you to some sad situations. Children develop cancer, and people die.
Experiencing those things can have an emotional impact on you, no matter how hard you try to keep your emotions out of it.
However, many new nurses weep because they become overwhelmed. They may feel overwhelmed by their workload and unable to devote enough time to specific patients.
This causes them to worry that they may miss something vital each shift and need to offer sufficient patient care.
Nurses can become stressed about liability issues or doing something incorrectly, leaving them with limited time to perform nursing responsibilities — and that’s not even…
