Abstract
The concept of peer support is not new to nursing, but it typically is relegated to providing clinical support to develop and enhance nursing skills. What is often overlooked is the emotional support needed to develop and enhance coping skills. In the emergency department we are intimately involved in the care of people of all ages suffering from a wide variety of injuries and illness, and we experience death and dying on a daily basis. We are great at supporting families and patients in the grasp of emotional turmoil, but who provides supports to us, and how? We emergency nurses need to begin to recognize and address our needs and the needs of our colleagues in coping with the emotional storm that surrounds our practice.
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