Introduction For this essay I have chosen to write about a situation that happened to me while I was working as an nursing auxiliary in an orthopaedic ward, I learned that a patient had been involved in a car accident, where she was the driver and her boyfriend had been killed. I imagined that she must be feeling awful, possibly responsible for his death. I felt that I should say something, but could not find …showed first 75 words of 2534 total…

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