Patient suicide: let’s make it okay to grieve
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Patient suicide: let’s make it okay to grieve

Amie Whitter Senior mental health nurse, NHS child and adolescent emergency response team

Nurses can experience devastating feelings of professional failure

The day I learned of the death by suicide of a child in my care, my world stopped.

Nursing Standard. 36, 3, 23-23. doi: 10.7748/ns.36.3.23.s13

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