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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;list-style:none;border:0px none;font-family:'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">By: LCDR Kim Hendricks, NC, USN</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;list-style:none;border:0px none;font-family:'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><em style="padding:0px;margin:0px;list-style:none;border:0px none;">LCDR Hendricks is a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth</em></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;list-style:none;border:0px none;font-family:'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><em style="padding:0px;margin:0px;list-style:none;border:0px none;"><span style="font-style:normal;">As a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, I assumed I would be on the Women and Children’s Ward, in a role similar to that from my home command. Instead, I was selected to be a medsite Nurse Manager, responsible for coordinating clinical care and patient flow through temporary medical clinics serving 500-800 patients per day. </span><br></em></p>
<br>Subjects: hospital ship; Navy Medicine Live blog; NMC Portsmouth; USNS Comfort (TAH-19); Nurse Corps; nursing; pediatrics</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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