The newly graduated nurse is assigned to his or her first dying patient.How can the nurse best prepare to care for this patient?

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Developing an understanding of their own feelings about death can help the nurse provide better care to the dying patient. It allows the nurse to recognize and acknowledge their own emotions, which can improve their ability to provide empathetic and compassionate care to the patient and their family. While completing a course on death and dying or controlling their own emotions are both beneficial, they do not necessarily address the nurse's personal feelings or biases. Drawing on the experience of the death of a loved one may be helpful, but it is not a necessary or universal experience that all nurses have.

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