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When nursing partners avoid challenging aspects of patient care together

My nursing partner and I work night shifts together and we've developed this unspoken system where I handle all the difficult family conversations and she takes on the complex medical procedures, but I think we're both avoiding the parts of our job that make us most uncomfortable and our patients are noticing the handoff confusion.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and your work partner each dodge the parts of the job that scare you, and patients are paying for it.

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