Hospital Rotations

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Many emotions lurk the halls of a hospital. Some of fear, some of worry, some of hope, and some of compassion. There is a plethora of people in a health care setting that can be there for a patient’s physical pain, but not always their emotional pain. Nurses are there for patients for their physical pains and emotional ones too. Last semester I was lucky enough to participate in the health science magnet program’s clinical rotations. On rotations, we would shadow doctors and nurses throughout various practices in Laredo. There is one rotation I will never forget and will be my driving force in becoming a nurse. Walking in to the pediatric ward, I was expecting to see, what I thought was the usual (tonsil removal, appendix removal, etc.),

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