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What gives her work meaning? "The birth of a new human being. That's the most beautiful reward. The fact that I can be present at the very beginning of life," she says, adding that the most challenging part of her work is when the baby is born in not quite good condition and it is necessary to perform some kind of intervention right in the delivery room, and communication with some parents, whose attitude and actions are usually more difficult.
The birth of a new baby makes the most sense
In her spare time she likes to go to her parents' home in Kublov near Beroun, where she enjoys her free time with her family and two cats, and devotes herself to her boyfriend, with whom she likes to go for walks in nature.
The team where Anna works consists of fifteen nurses, including the station nurse. They rotate in twelve-hour shifts, usually staffed by a pair of nurses: one looks after the running of the ward as a whole and cares for the newborns who are in their mothers' rooms, and the other, known as the observation nurse, keeps an eye on the babies after a caesarean section, bringing them to their mothers for breastfeeding every three hours and attending births as well. When it gets busier, another OR nurse is added to assist with the births. Therefore, the job description of a nurse in the neonatal unit also varies according to her actual role.
What a day looks like for nurse Anna
