Training in communication skills, end-of-life care, and coping strategies as the key to preventing burnout in clinicians

We thank the authors of the letter to the Editor entitled “Burnout and devastated feeling on patients' death: Universal to clinicians” for their thoughtful comments on the article by Rodríguez-Rey et al.1 and for raising the important point of emotional distress of clinicians resulting from patients' deaths, irrespective of the medical specialty. The ir comments are fully coherent with the conclusions of the study by Rodríguez-Rey et al.,1 with the literature in the field2,3, and with their clinical experience, as well as with our own experience.

Source: Australian Critical Care - March 12, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Roc ío Rodríguez-Rey, Alba Palacios, Jesús Alonso-Tapia Tags: Letter to the editor Source Type: research