How to care without compromising your well-being
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How to care without compromising your well-being

Janie Brown Cancer nurse specialist and founder and executive director

A nurse and author relates her experience of learning self-care and compassion alongside maintaining support for very ill patients and their families

Many of us became nurses because of our acute sensitivity to emotion, starting at a young age.

Nursing Standard. 36, 3, 72-75. doi: 10.7748/ns.36.3.72.s25

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