She also makes a point of treating children with dignity. I'm a firm believer in talking to them. I don't care if they're in a coma. You have no idea what the kid is taking in, what they're learning. Occasionally, nurses will hang signs on the curtains telling people that if they're going to talk around the bed, say nice things.
Caution is wise around children who are awake.
Faber recalls a patient who was terrified to go to an isolation room, used on occasion to give privacy to a terminally ill child. The girl was moved because she needed a restful place to sleep, but she didn't believe that after overhearing a doctor say she might die. The nurse learned to cope with the deaths of patients the hard way. One kid in particular took me three months to get over. You're not the same person.