For years patients have depended on nurses to take care of them as if they were their own child, but have you ever wondered what kind of sacrifice the children of these nurses have had to make? On May 6, 2016, nurse and blogger, Amanda Redhead, wrote an "Open Letter to the Children of Nurses." She talked about the way a mom, who is a nurse, could feel for not being at her child's first sports event or not being there when her child only wanted mommy when they were sick. As a daughter of a nurse this letter was so eye-opening to me as to what my mom went through with being a mom and a nurse. It is often very easy for children of nurses to feel left out my their parent who is a
