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Health care professionals have often described their work as being honorable, dignifying and life-affirming. They reported these beliefs as being the source of motivation and job fulfillment for them. Religion and spirituality have also played a role in enabling these professionals find job fulfillment in critical and palliative care. Palliative care nurses who adapted well to the deaths of their terminal patients reported in studies their copious use of a variety of coping strategies aimed at emotional stabilization, self-care and continued motivation to work in palliative care. There are a variety of strategies and resources which you, as a health care professional, can use to positively cope with the daily stresses of providing medical and spiritual care to your patient. Here are some suggestions: 1. Religious or Spiritual: • Engaging in prayer, music or meditation. • Engaging in your religious or spiritual rituals or practices. • Reading religious or spiritual literature, such as the Quran, Bible, Torah, Bhagavad-Gita. • Speaking with a religious or spiritual advisor, such as a pastor, minister, chaplain, imam, spiritual practitioner (while maintaining patient privacy). • Talking with your religious or spiritual community (while maintaining patient privacy). • Participating in religious- or spiritual-based counseling (while maintaining patient privacy). 2. Self-care: • Taking relaxing baths at home or a spa. • Attending a renewal retreat. • Creating and using your own restoration rituals using incense, candles, etc. • Engaging in solitude to think over your experiences. • Engaging in yoga or meditation. • Journaling your reflections and motivations . • Hanging out with your family, friends and/or pets. • Engaging in a healthy lifestyle, such as having regular physical exercise, nutritious food, sufficient rest and sleep. 3. Work skills: • Having emotional boundaries with your patients, especially the terminal ones. • Inviting the chaplain, social worker, psychiatrist, psychologist or other medical professional for patient challenges that you are not equipped to handle. • Debriefing difficult patient encounters and experiences with your peers or managers. • Organizing a debriefing group or blog at work. • Getting spiritual competence training.