title: Leaving work at work: a balanced, compassionate, separate home life.
abstract: We all know it's important to keep our work and home lives separate, but in an age of new media, of being constantly 'on', how can we do this in practice? These issues are even more acute for nurses, argues Aysha Mendes, since the emotional nature of their work makes 'switching off' all the harder.
authors.affiliation: Freelance Journalist, specialising in health, psychology and nursing.
authors.forename: Aysha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mendes
mesh_terms: D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D006113:United Kingdom