eing a nurse is rewarding, but the profession often involves challenging and demanding emotional experiences. On a daily basis, nurses encounter stressful situations of human suffering and pain that may trigger a variety of intense emotions. 1 Nevertheless, nurses are socially expected to present a public image that is empathetic, caring, compassionate, and considerate and to manage their emotions. They are required to suppress and control unpleasant emotions such as anger, distress, fear, and frustration. This can be demanding and involves tremendous emotional effort. 2 Smith, 3 drawing on Hochschild's 4 theory of emotion management, highlighted the cost of emotional involvement in human caring through the experiences of nursing students who struggle to suppress their emotions when caring for a dying child. Indeed, much of the research has shown that nursing students, as well as students from other health care professions, experience significant challenges in managing their own and others' emotions in clinical practice. 5,6 According to Hochschild, 4 who coined the term "emotion management" in her seminal work, when an experienced emotion is incompatible with a socially expected emotion, emotion work is conducted by deep or surface acting. Hochschild 4 described deep acting as a type of emotion work that suppresses or evokes emotions that are appropriate or expected for the situation. For example, an expressive technique involves expressive gestures such as smiling to evoke the expected feeling of happiness; a physical technique works by regulating bodily sensations such as taking slow deep breaths to generate a more relaxed state; and a cognitive technique consists of actively altering thought processes to focus on a more appropriate emotion for the situation. Conversely, surface acting is simply appropriating a facade that is expected for the situation. 7 Having realized that successful emotion management plays a central part in patients' healing process as well as being key to nurses' job satisfaction, 1 the nature of emotion work should be studied further. This includes ensuring that nursing students, as part of their education, are supported and prepared with various strategies for emotion management