Working Life: My main role is to provide pre-operative and post-operative spine care

Bríd Ní Laoire, dedicated spine nurse, Mater Private Hospital, Dublin

Bríd Ní Laoire, clinical spine nurse at the Mater Private. Picture: Moya Nolan

6.20am

Morning routine goes like this: alarm, shower, decent breakfast, say goodbye to my husband Paddy, leave home in Glasnevin, head for work in the car, park up to walk the last leg along the Royal Canal to the hospital in Dorset St, where I make a beeline for the changing room to don my scrubs.