The Stranded Patient on Christmas Eve

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

This is a great Christmas story from Guideposts Magazine I just ran across. I thought the ER nurses could relate to and appreciate this. Thank you for all you do on Christmas and the rest of the year, too.

"Christmas isn't a good time to be in the hospital.

Not for patients, not for an E.R. nurse like me. There's always this sense that you'd rather be someplace else."

"Helping patients feel better is more than just tending to their medical needs," Mom used to tell me. "It's the little acts of kindness that remind them somebody is thinking about them, that to somebody they're special. That's the heart of nursing." In the hustle and bustle of the E.R. I often lost sight of that. There were times nursing had become less a calling than a job."

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The Stranded Patient on Christmas Eve

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

why I love nursing so much.....

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

Totally agree, Esme.

There is always an opportunity to go out of your way to help people. You don't even have to go out of your way......

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