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Thank you for posting this. What I love about it is, unlike the usual overly emotional, saccharine and self-sacrificial (barf) descriptions of what it’s like to be a nurse this one hits home on what it feels like to be a nurse. This could be any one of us on any ordinary day. It has been a privilege and an honor to be present at more births than I can count but there is something sacred about being part of the end of another human being’s life that makes it...extraordinary.
Working with the elderly for most of my career, I saw a lot of death, but I always found it to be a sacred privilege to be there at the moment when the patient took his or her last breath. The last person I saw pass away was my husband, and the nurse in me called the time of death and reported it to his nurse. But then the wife in me took over and I marveled at the way he had reached for my hand as his soul left this earth, winging its way toward Heaven.
This is really well-written. I thank the OP for sharing it.
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
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Found at ABC News/GMA:
Nurse asks, 'Did you know I was there?' in touching viral post
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/nurse-asks-touching-viral-post-67932491