“Terry is one of the nurses that you emulate, that you hope you can live up to his standards,” Samantha Martin, a Norton Children’s nurse on the oncology floor, said.
He was a class act in compassion and commitment.
“Terry embodied the art of nursing, the ability to come in, do a task but make someone smile while you do it, the ability to take a really heavy day or a heavy diagnosis and laugh with a child through it,” Taylor Bergman, the nurse manager on 7 West, said. “I think sometimes when people hear pediatric oncology, or hematology, or really sick children in general, they think that the these four walls are really sad, and they think that the unit is really sad. I found right away this place is nothing but joy most of the time, because of the caregivers.”