As a nurse or any healthcare professional, is it bittersweet when patients you've built good relationships with get better and leave, knowing you probably won't ever see them again? If so, how do you deal with it?

On a hospital tour with my high school's health science department, one of the nurses leading the tour said it was bittersweet to watch patients go. Is this something I should be concerned about experiencing as an aspiring nurse?

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