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Tracey Cunningham

Neonatal/pediatric flight nurse at Duke Life Flight with 30 years of nursing experience and a former NICU mom.

Sep 30, 2026

DallasHOST
3:49
Yeah.
3:50
Um, based on the care that my son received, I was fascinated with what they did, and how they took g- you know, such good care of him.
3:58
And so when he was nine months old, I was accepted into nursing school, and I just, I did my nursing, and then I graduated, and went and did my two years of basic med surg that all the professors tell you to do.
4:15
So I did that, and specialized in the NICU.
4:19
And, um, then I was on vacation.
4:22
So I was, you know, doing my NICU stuff, and on vacation I was out in Utah, and I saw there was a little kid that had gotten hurt, and, um, needed to be life flighted out of there.
4:37
Airlifted out, because it...

13 MINS LATER

DallasHOST
17:31
I mean, they obviously say, "Hey, there's a kid, the, the baby that was just born has a heart defect." What else do you find out at that moment, and then, you know, and, and the severity of it?

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