We are a diverse, multi-generational nursing staff, and we have much to tell one another about our great heritage and what it is like to be a nurse during the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
This story does not end. We do not “take off” being a nurse when we change out of our scrubs and take off our name badges. We are nurses in our neighborhoods, our children’s schools and in our churches. Once we become nurses, we are always nurses.
And whether or not we knew this was going to happen when we first went to nursing school, either a few or a lot of years ago, we’re proud of that. We are proud of being in a profession recently indicated to be one of the most respected in our county. We are proud that being a nurse means we give to others every day and that what we do has the power to impact the lives of others.
I hope you will read that pride here.
I hope each of you who read this Web site will find in our stories the love we have for others and the real sense of commitment and joy that is the purest, most fundamental part of our profession. For, even today in this new century with technology unheard of just a few years ago, and with constantly improving drugs and treatments to treat and heal us, we find our touch and concern are often the most important thing we bring to our patients.
And we accept that to be a nurse is to be a human being who cares for another human being in a time of anxiety, pain and fear. We understand that we are more than all these drugs and treatments and new technology we have to help us provide care; we are nurses and who we are speaks volumes more than anything else.
I hope you will enjoy our stories. And I hope you will want to join us.
Suzanne Rollins, RN, MSN
Chief Nursing Officer