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Stress control

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Nursing tasks and role expectations of nurses are often unpredictable. As Briggs (1972 para., 253, 80b) noted:

Both nurses and midwives have to deal with situations and reactions which are individual, often unexpected, sometimes sudden and catastrophic, and which require a far from routine response.

Soul and body, as it seems to me, are affected sympathetically by one another;

Aristotle, De Anima

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Bailey, R., Clarke, M. (1989). Stress control. In: Stress and Coping in Nursing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2941-9_6

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