Four decades of collaboration: My life with nurses
“Baby K is looking a little floppy.” I told them. An hour later when sepsis had been diagnosed, I received the accolades. “Good pick-up, Perle,” said the chief, approvingly. Nurse Deanna smiled. She’d given me this opportunity to shine and from that moment on the nurses in the NICU seemed to treat me differently. They knew I would listen.
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