On the 4th of November, I was with my preceptor one of our activities for the day really touched me. She manages a palliative care unit where they have some of the patients due to terminal illnesses. She has made arrangements with the Chaplain to organize some memorial services once a month so that these people can be remembered and the staff can talk about how they feel about working with patients who are dying.
It was a very emotional moment because some of the stories that some of the staff members told of the patients they had taking care of were just wonderful and sad at the same time. One of them spoke of a young woman who had died at 29 years old who had two young children and a seven months old baby.
Afterwards, the Chaplain said a prayer, I closed my eyes and tears were streaming down my cheeks. I think it is a good thing that she has that arranged as an outlet for the staff to voice out how they feel. I can not image if the staff on this unit had to bottle in all their emotions and how they feel about the patients they for.
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It sounds like a really intuitive manager who knows that the staff need to be taken care of too. That sounds like a really hard unit to work on. I admire people that can do that kind of work to help the terminally ill population.
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