A Thank You To Ped Nurses

[ShawnF]

I posted this in a thread in the humor section. The thread was about pts hitting the call button. It was pointed out to me that i should post it here, and i agree whole heartedly. I have met alot of ped nurses, as a child and now with my own children. I have noticed that they are truely a breed apart. You guys take a job that is challenging with adults and make the best of it with children. My hats off to you and yours! This is my story, and the reason I am going to nursing school.

I am not a nurse.(yet) But reading these made me think back to my childhood, and of all the that inspired me to join thier ranks. When i was 6 or 7, I got a bad case of croop, 2 weeks in an O2 tent. Thinking back on it I don't remember much of that time I spent alone. The nurses seemed to always be there. I remember that if they left my room, it was for very short periods of time. Looking back on it, I relize what a pain in the butt this must have been for them. The middle of the night hitting the call button cause I had had a bad dream. They would never leave me till i had fell back to sleep, and never seemed to be bothered by it. Those nurses must have been saints. But they changed the life of a little boy...I only wish i could look them up and tell them just how special they were, and to thank them.

And thank you all.