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Nurses should know about vicarious trauma: clinical nurse specialist

Dealing with sensitive information when caring for distressed drug and alcohol clients and the resulting emotional toll and exhaustion leaves nurses at risk of a range of health issues, a clinical nurse specialist says.

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  1. vicarious trauma, i believe could happen in other departments wherever staff counsel and become involved with longer term patients .. such as palliative, aged care, disabled

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