ABSTRACT
Each time that social workers, nurses, and other health professionals provide crisis intervention and emotional support to an individual or family who has experienced a death, health professionals also experience the grieving process. When discussing the role of the care giver, Fulton (1979) referred to the care giver as a “surrogate griever.” As “surrogate grievers,” health professionals may experience not only the emotions associated with the grief–i.e., sadness, anger, guilt–but the episode can also arouse memories and feelings surrounding the care giver's own personal losses.
