Have you all read this? Help find this nurse!!

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This melted my heart when I read it. I was just trying to get the word out. Nursing is such an amazing and rewarding career. This nurse deserves to know she is still thought of after all this time!!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1044536

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These are the kind of stories we need to start educating the public on our real role - the patients.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
She took Talitha down to the nursery and rocked her and rocked her and

rocked her, massaging and rubbing her hands the whole time. She was finally

able to get them warm and pliable enough to open. After what seemed like an

eternity, she came back with these prints for me.

I don’t remember her name. I’ve never been able to thank her other than at

the moment she brought the papers to me, but I often wish I could. I know

that cradling a stranger’s dead newborn certainly was not what she had been

planning on doing when she got out of bed that morning, and I am

tremendously grateful for the time and effort she took to give me such a

treasure.

It is the best birthday gift I’ve ever gotten, especially on someone else’s

birthday.

So wherever you are, young nurse with the brown hair who was working at

Shannon Hospital in San Angelo, Texas around lunchtime on Thursday,

September 30, 1999, thank you. You gave my baby an hour or so of your time.

And through that act, you gave me a lifetime of memories.

This is the story of a real nurse.
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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

That is the kind of nurse I always want to be. It warms my heart to read/hear stories like that. :)

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..

When my son laid in my arms dying after being removed from life-support, I was grateful that I had a kind, empathetic nurse. Her gentle yet stoic nature was forever burned into my memory. I could never be a peds nurse. They endure seeing innocent children suffer and die on a regular basis. Thank God for Peds nurses.

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sounds like they found her, check out the comments below the article

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Our stories NEED to be out there...I LOVED the comments below! :inlove:

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

That made me cry. Once for the nurse who did such a special thing and for the mother who lost her baby.

Yes, the public does need to see what we do. Nursing isn't Grey's Anatomy.

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

Great story.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..
That made me cry. Once for the nurse who did such a special thing and for the mother who lost her baby.

Yes, the public does need to see what we do. Nursing isn't Grey's Anatomy.

....although I totally LOVE Grey's. But you're right. The general public doesn't realize the deep, emotional aspects of nursing. In a way I'm glad they don't.....that means they haven't NEEDED us yet.

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