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Brandy Jeter-Flores

Brandy Jeter-Flores

Emergency department nursing supervisor at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and 2024 New Mexico Nursing Excellence Award nominee, featured in the New York Times on heat-related emergencies.

Sep 10, 2026

SamHOST
15:15
So
15:16
I thought about it a lot, you know, talking about worst experiences and, and I came up really with like two situations.
15:24
The first one is when I very, very first started out, I was on clinical rotation.
15:30
And like I said, I was gun-ho to be a peds nurse when I first started, like that's what I was going to do.
15:34
And I was on the peds floor in their oncology wing And I had to sit there and be the nurse for a patient and his parents while the provider told them that, you know, the lump on this poor child's arm was not an infection and was not any sort of like bug bite or anything that they had their hopes up that it was, that it was this really aggressive form of cancer and that there was zero treatment they could offer that child.
16:05
And I watched his mother melt.
16:07
And I mean, when I say melt, it's like a whole different, like you can envision somebody's mom crying or being really upset, but she became one with the floor.

19 MINS LATER

SamHOST
35:04
The floor is yours, my friend.

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