I found this popular source using the graph below provided by my professor. This graph allowed me to find sources in the “green” category, which were the least biased. I went through and Googled “pediatric nursing” and “stress” and added the publisher at the end of each search. After trying The New York Times and PBS, I found an article from The Washington Post.
The source is credible because it comes from the Washington Post, which is a well-known publishing source. When doing a quick search of the authors’ name on Google, I found that “Shazia Memon” is also credible. Stated by Huffpost, “Shazia is a pediatric critical care nurse in New York City… her essays have been featured in The Washington Post and The Atlantic. She also runs an organization called Khairgiver” (
HuffPost). I was also able to gain from the HuffPost that Memon has a BSN, RN, and CCRN (Critical Care Registered Nurse). This shows that she has experience in her job and that she has been published on two large publishing sources.
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The article,
“A pediatric critical-care nurse has a message for her patients and their parents: Thank you” by Shazia Memon is about a PICU nurse and her “thank you” messages. Memon states her eight different emotionally touching messages. They included: thank you “for your compassion… for warming my heart with your innocence… for showing me your extraordinary endurance through ordinary life… for making me laugh… for sharing your vulnerability… for challenging me… for showing me what it means to embody grace… [and] for showing me that love is love is love” (Memon). These messages are the different ways that Memon has been emotionally touched during her time as a PICU nurse.
This article provides an answer to my question because all of the rewarding thank-yous that Memon received as a PICU nurse is a way for her to cope with stress. Her job as a PICU nurse is most likely extremely stressful but she writes that she is very thankful for each of her patients which helps her get through her daily stressors. This source differs from the other articles because it is a popular source while the others are scholarly articles. I can compare this article to the one on the ways that pediatric nurses can manage their stress because this article includes ways patients make pediatric nurse’s days better. In the long run, this can lower their stress level. To be completely honest, this article differed from all of the other ones because it was packed with emotions. While reading, I had tears starting to drip slowly down the side of my face.
