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profession. It’s hard because as nurses, it’s in our nature to be compassionate, and these two things—detachment and compassion—are at odds with one another.
“I may have spoiled her, yes. Some. Not intentionally. But she was my last. My last to carry, to give birth to, to nurse. I coddled her more than the others, because after Caitlin, I would never do it again. There was a finality to it, which was hard for me, because I dreamt my whole life about being a mother. Each of Caitlin’s firsts—first steps, first day of kindergarten—was also my last.”
It’s a known fact that inadequate nursing staff is directly aligned to patient mortality.
What people don’t know is that fatalities from medical errors are one of the leading causes of death in America,
