How can health care professionals prepare themselves to deal with end-of-life situations?
Health care professionals need to know federal and state laws pertaining to the rights of dying patients and their families, as well as the policies of their employing agency. It is also important to be aware of one's own beliefs about death and dying and to accept one's own mortality.
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