Thread: uh oh - step daughter career issues
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Old 11-05-2012, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by engatwork View Post
The oldest step daughter graduates from nursing school on Dec 8th and has been interning at a hospital in the town where she is living. She has already gotten and accepted a job offer at the hospital. Today she had a patient that will probably die over the next day or so and she is all torn up about it. She called her mom all upset and crying. I asked her mom (who has been a nurse for 26 years) did she go through the same thing when her first patient died and she said yes she did. Hopefully, she will get used to death being a part of the job. ... She made straight A's the whole time she was in nursing school.
The best thing? Let mama handle this. Besides, us guys don't handle "death" anywhere near the same as the girls do.

Your best bet?

Stand back and left the professional handle it. As they say...

"Been there. Done that."

BTW, if you happen to be FORCED into offering some advice, preface it with "Now, I'm a guy and I can't say that what I'm about to say will be in the ball-park..."

Then...go down hill after that. The sooner you get off the wagon, the easier it will be for you to not try to explain what you didn't really say but they're sure you said it anyway.

Either that, or go for a long walk in the woods and don't come back 'til the bar closes. Both options are painless.

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