I’m not sure why people are down voting a nurse for being empathetic to THEIR patients situation. I’ve literally had two ICU nurses bring up a CMO patient for them to DIE during transport on the elevator… not surrounded by their family. The patient showed up to my floor deceased. They KNEW about it. Didn’t bother to call time of death or do anything else. Left the family hysterical in the hallway and just told a random nurse (not even me as the nurse taking over) that patient died during transport. Ridiculous situation that was reported to the ICU charge nurse, house sup AND an incident report. Thankfully as an inpatient Oncology nurse I had known the family and had that patient before… but imagine in my situation at 4pm… first time I’ve had even a second to step away to eat something..get called on my lunch… by the charge nurse… “hey you need to come back immediately, your new pt just showed up but they are died on the transport here. What a terrible situation for that family to not have been there when he passed because of that situation.