What is the hardest thing to cope with as a nurse?

Answer 1

Death is by far the hardest, especially if it's a child and the parents are (understandably) distraught. Parents will expect doctors and nurses not to give up on their child, but there comes a point where no matter what care you give they're already gone and there's nothing more to do.

While that's going to affect you, there are hundreds of doctors and nurses and other health care providers to lean back on and provide support for one another especially with a disheartening case like that. So yes, the hardest things to cope with in nursing are also the hardest things any human can cope with, but they also have the best rewards too like being able to say someone's cured of cancer, watching a child being born, or watching someone's condition improve.

Answer 2

Monitoring an unstable patient is the most challenging part of the day for a nurse.