Sometimes doing what I do can be rewarding, sometimes difficult. My patient, baby E.C. was born without a heart rate, and wasn't breathing for 12 minutes.. Altough doctors and nurses got his heart beating again, he is not going to live. One of the most difficult things to do as a nurse is to be able to be there for the parents when their child is going to die, to comfort them... And it is important to let them hold their baby, no matter how many iv lines or tubes the baby has.. The thing that keeps me going is beliving that once they are gone, they go to heaven with the angels.. And the good stories of babies surviving and going home outweigh the bad..
