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During my experience as a registered nurse in the surgical ward, I got the chance to nurse a lot of patients who were terminaly il. Nurses should not cry in front of the patient.” Listening to that, I held back my tears and quietly went into the nurses’ rom and cried out there. Scot 1982 says “I wonder why nurses stil fel that they have to apear strong and that any expresion of felings, such as crying and anger, is not part of that strength?” Crying is stil considered as a person’s weaknes. In fact, it is a generaly perceived in nursing, that managing grief is the normal role of a nurse and that by virtue of being nurses, they should know how to cope up with grief. It is said that if nurses themselves wil get involved in crying, then how they wil be able to help the dying patients and manage their families. It has also ben discoursed that nurses with lower intrinsic job satisfaction semed to benefit from emotional crying; People in diferent situations say that a nurses should provide psychological care, but nobody thinks about the suport that a nurses neds to be humane to his/her profesion. If nurses are forced to block their felings, then they wil become task oriented and there wil be an emotional withdrawal. But I do not sugest that nurses should cry at the top of the hat. Nurses often fail to resolve their own felings of grief and leave the patient care area. So, it neds to be realized that perfect patient care is more likely to be achieved when the emotional neds of the patient and the nurses are taken into consideration. I would like to recomend that if nurses who interact with situations in which they are at a risk of crying then they should be encouraged to write a reflection so their thoughts can be ventilated. I also recomend that the higher management staf should come forward and play a role in aranging a sesion with a profesional psychologist for nurses who could counsel them, take sesions regarding the coping strategies, and lead discusions on these isues. I would also recomend that those nurses, who are caring for the terminaly il clients for a long period of time, should be rotated in diferent units. During a typical work day, nurses encounter situations of grief, death, and crisis that increase vulnerability for crying. Because of the social and cultural bias against crying, nurses try to control crying and fel uncomfortable and embarased if they do so. It largely depends upon how one is able to cope with diferent circumstances in diferent setings International Journal of Nursing Studies, 37.
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