"the hardest part of being a nurse"

There was a time when we were having our class in our Health care RLE, our clinical instructor shared to us her experiences when she was still in the hospital. Her experiences of witnessing dying people took their last breath. She said that it is really hard to look at those people who are dying, especially when you are the one who is taking care of that person for days, weeks, and even months. Of course, because there is already a rapport between you, your patient and your patient’s family. But what makes it even harder, is the fact that as nurse, you should not cry upon seeing you patient die. You must not show sympathy. I ask her why, she answered, it is unethical for us to show sympathy. And she said, “it is the hardest part of being a nurse”, to pretend that your ok while looking your client die.