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Tucking you in by Mary E. McBride Majkut
I walked by your room today. I’m not your nurse. I don’t even work on this floor. But you called out. “Nurse!” you beckoned, looking at me. As I walked past your room I stopped. I considered whether or not to enter. I did. I found a little wisp of an old woman Lying in bed. You looked so very vulnerable. Then, you spoke. Softly, yet with urgency, you asked, “Where’s Mama?” I stopped, Trying to digest your statement. It wasn’t the fact that you were confused, That was apparent. But I thought about How you must have felt. (Where’s Mama?) Then I tucked you in, I hugged you And told you to go to sleep. That Mama was Not far away.
Mary F. McBride Majkut, RN, BS, is interim nursing manager, Emergency Department, Nashoba Valley Med- ical Center in Ayer, Mass. “Tucking you in” and other poems by the author were included in The HeART of Nursing poster presentations displayed at the 37th Bien- nial Convention of the Honor Society of Nursing in Toronto. Malkut views many nurse-patient encounters as inspiration for stories and poems and sees nursing experi- ences as gifts that provide insight into our true purpose as nurses, as humans.
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