When you are a nurse, you face the conundrum of providing care to those outside your job. Equally I suppose doctors get the same: "Oh you're a doctor...well my leg has this rash....". They may feel impelled to offer advise based on their education and oath, yet, the day-to-day job they have has its own schedule and stressors, much like nursing. I read the works of Robert Wicks. He has a book out re: secondary stress and about how it effects the caregiver by just being a caregiver and what it means to decompress and rejuvenate oneself. Giving of oneself when you have little reserve, unless someone is spiritually grounded, is difficult and demands extreme focus and positive thinking. It involves being SURE to be good to oneself first and maintaining that throughout care giving------else one loses oneself.
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