Who Are Your Heroes?

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Specializes in Progressive Care.

I want to know who your heroes or heroines in nursing are. Who do you look up to and why. Lets give props and credit to the nurses who made you want to be one.

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not in nursing, but I love Marie Curie. She helped the nurses by training them on xray machines during the war.

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Specializes in ICU/CCU/CVICU/ED/HS.

Also not in nursing...Actually, he had only an eighth grade education. But he taught me to be a man...MY DAD!!!! He left me at a young (59) age,:bluecry1: but he taught me my responsibilities to my family. Sure do miss him:o . Wish he could see me now.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I don't really have a hero. But I do have a mentor and someone I admire.

I love a nurse I work with because she is always thinking the best about people, she brings out the best in others, and is always quick to point out their good points that they don't even see in themselves. She's compassionate, understanding, a team players, put's others needs ahead of her own while taking care of herself, and smart.

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

This is going to sound corny..but my hero is my husband!

He is a paramedic, and he started working with his father who was a chief of the volunteer fire department in our rural area at the age of 13. He knew he wanted to be a paramedic very early...and did everything he needed to do starting at age 13 by reading, taking certain classes (even college!), and planed on going into the Navy as a corpman to help.

He has seen things I couldn't ever bear, helped so many people in life or death situations without as much as a thank you...and is eager each and every day to do it again!

He sings songs for scared elderly people to soothe them, does puppets out of gloves for children to get them to laugh, and loves his patients!

He also teaches new EMTs...and has a theory..."you may only get this person for 15 minutes..but you will be giving them 15 minutes of total uninterupted time to observe, care and assess...USE IT! This may be the only time they will get this! (in this he means in hospital it is hard for nurses or docs to give 15 minutes uninterupted time...not meaning anything rude)" and he does this with each patient!!!!!!!

He is confident, strong, loving, caring, smart, gives all of himself and asks for nothing..and keeps on going!

My husband is my hero, and always will be!

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

The nurse I look up to the most would be my mother. She has been an RN for now 24 years. I have seen her on the units working and interacting with her patients, and they absolutly love her. She works outpatient and I work inpatient and when her patients are admitted they tell me wonderful things about her and the level of care she provides. I only hope to approach being the nurse that she currently is. I guess I have big shoes to fill for nursing in my family.

There are another group of nurses that I look up to, and they were my nurses when I was in the hospital. They made frightening procedures bearable and supported my entire family. They would bring movies in for my and my brother to watch, and would bend the rules to allow my parents to stay overnight when I had to have surgery. When I began making a southward turn and the physicians began to fear that I would die, they doubled their efforts and ensured a good outcome for me.

I guess I was destined to be a nurse, I been surrounded by great nurses all my life:) .

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