There are some days when it feels like no one notices all of the sacrifices we nurses make. We get attached to our patients. We don’t do it for the glory or accolades. We do it because we really care about our patients. We cry in the break room or bathroom or the med room. Sometimes it is so draining. Then someone writes a letter like this, and it makes it all worth it!
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Looking Joli Good 
I have no words because this describes us perfectly in the good, bad and worse moments of our jobs. Just knowing that one parent recognizes all we do even at the highest point of her grieving makes what I do worth it.
~Kristy
Pediatric oncology nurse
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My thoughts exactly! We oncology nurses especially see a lot of the saddest side of nursing. I love taking care of my patients and getting to know their families, but it’s heartbreaking as well to get so attached.
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Wow! You work in oncology too! I agree, I love my job and can’t see myself doing anything else but it’s emotionally draining at times. Do you work with kids? For me the good stories outweigh the bad and that’s another reason I stay.
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Yes, the good definitely outweighs the bad! I couldn’t see myself doing anything else as well. I love pediatrics, but I don’t work with kids anymore. Now I work in an out patient infusion center. I love it and I love all my patients.
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Similar story. I always worked in pediatrics impatient but moved to the outpatient infusion center 5 years ago.
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Do most of the kids have ports or some other type of VADs? I’d think it would be tough on them to have to get started over and over. I think around 30% of our patients do.
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It depends. A quicker treatment like Hodgkins, non Hodgkins and some osteos have piccs almost all of the rest have ports. We use LMX to numb the port and typically they don’t feel a thing.
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We hardly ever see any piccs, and I don’t know why. I wish we did! We do a lot of breast and colon and pancreatic cancer, so most of them have ports since the treatments are so long. We also use the lmx on the adults too. Sometimes I think it is more mental for them to have the cream on than anything else.
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That’s odd my sister works in interventional radiology and most of their adult cancer patients have piccs.
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Yeah, I thought it was odd too when I started working there. We do a lot of the chemo through peripheral IVs which I hate because it is so risky.
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Wow we never do that unless we run out of options or veins. We get kids from third world countries with vascular and skin burns from peripheral chemo. Scary stuff!!
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I showed this video to the other nurses I work with….lots of tears today.
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Seriously, it is so touching. I shared it with all my nursing friends and I was crying all over again.
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