{"id":14,"date":"2009-09-07T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-09-07T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T14:43:06","slug":"childrens-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/09\/07\/childrens-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u2018Ring for the paediatric nurse,\u2019 bellows Christine trying to make herself heard over the top of the heartfelt screams of 5 year old Thomas.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Thomas has had 5 teeth removed, and has just woken up in the recovery area spitting blood metaphorically and literally.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>We are amazed at his strength as an anaesthetist and 3 nurses\u2019 combined efforts only just manage to stop him from launching himself off the trolley.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I rather pride myself on having a way with children, so on finding Thomas\u2019s favourite teddy bear on the trolley<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I confidently approach the angry and frightened child. \u2018Look Thomas, it\u2019s Barney bear,\u2019 I say in my most soothing voice.<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Thomas fixes me with a glare of stunning malevolence and yells \u2018I WANT MY MUMMY\u2019.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Helen, the children\u2019s nurse arrives to a combined sigh of relief, and in seconds Thomas morphs from demon in child form to the embodiment of peaceful angelic vulnerability.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Ring for the paediatric nurse,\u2019 bellows Christine trying to make herself heard over the top of the heartfelt screams of 5 year old Thomas.\u00a0 Thomas has had 5 teeth removed, and has just woken up in the recovery area spitting blood metaphorically and literally.\u00a0 We are amazed at his strength as an anaesthetist and 3 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/09\/07\/childrens-nurse\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191,1192,1190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-surgery","category-evidence-based-nursing","category-student-nurse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}