Pediatric nurse uses healing power of music to bring kids joy.
 

Manny Remilus spent time in and out of the hospital as a child. Now that he's a nurse, he wants to make patients' hospital stays a bit brighter. So, he uses the healing powers of music.

 

"You know, when I was there, the thing I think back on the the most was how the nurses there really took care of me — really made me feel like family, really made me feel like I was at home," Remilus told CBS News. "Really helped me forget the troubles of being in a scary environment, you know and not always having my family there with me."

 

"And so, growing up, I decided I wanted to do the same thing and give back, and so that's why I became a pediatric nurse," he said. 

 

"One of the things that I learned throughout my time – both in life and my experiences in the hospital as a patient and a nurse – is that music is a very powerful tool that we have in our arsenal to really help put people at ease," he said. Remilus said even a three-minute song and impromptu dance party can ease a patient's mood...read more

 

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