Kate Genovese will be commenting on this story today, May 20, 2013
A NURSE'S DILEMMA
AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONALISM
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For bombing suspect’s nurses, angst gave way to duty
They did what they had to do, and did it well. But they worry
The 29-year-old trauma nurse was on-call at home, unwinding in front
of a “Friends’’ television marathon on a Friday night. She had been
ministering to patients horribly injured in the Boston Marathon bombings
and craved a distraction. But she couldn’t resist flipping to the news,
and as she did, police surrounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, cowering and
bloody inside a parked pleasure boat.
Then her smartphone rang.
A nursing supervisor told the young woman to hurry into work. She
didn’t know it yet, but within hours, she would be one of Tsarnaev’s
bedside nurses, soothing the accused terrorist’s pain and healing his
wounds — just as she had done for some of his victims.
stay tuned for Kate's commentary on this article and her own personal experience in nursing with a similar situation.
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