Working Life: It’s a privilege to interact with mothers and babies in the first days of life

Myra Jordan, newborn hearing screener, HSE

Myra Jordan, HSE newborn hearing screener. Photograph Moya Nolan

6am

I’m up early to commute from Swords to the Coombe Hospital, Dublin, which takes about an hour on weekdays. On weekends, I fly in. It’s usually two bus journeys or I sometimes drive.