Q&A: Insights on Nursing From Our Winners

Thanks to our winners for every thing you do! We talked with them to study extra about their nursing journey and expertise.

IBX: What impressed you to turn into a nurse?

Coyle: I used to be impressed by my mother; she insisted I turn into a nurse. She gave me two selections: nurse or nun. It’s the perfect factor my mom ever made me do.

Sandy: I used to be impressed to pursue psychological well being nursing as a result of my brother was battling paranoid schizophrenia. I used to be all the time concerned with advocacy for him till he sadly ended his life.

Sears: My mom all the time needed me to be a nurse and inspired me to pursue it. I additionally bear in mind being out and in of the hospital as a little bit woman. Throughout one hospital admission, I had an accident and was embarrassed. I informed the nurse, and he or she took excellent care of me. She made me really feel so secure and preserved my dignity. At that second, I knew I needed to make another person really feel the identical precise means.

IBX: What’s the most fulfilling facet(s) of nursing and why?

Coyle: Probably the most fulfilling facet is witnessing the ability of prayer and miracles. Within the NICU, I’ve seen many miracles — infants which have survived regardless of the medical odds. I additionally take pleasure in operating my help group for grieving mother and father, HOPING/UNITE (toddler loss) help group.

Sandy: I take pleasure in that it’s by no means the identical day twice. It’s thrilling to see individuals really therapeutic bodily and emotionally and to see one thing optimistic that you simply’ve been in a position to do, even when it’s only a tiny bit.

Sears: I take pleasure in assembly completely different individuals and love that everyone has a narrative to inform. Each particular person I’ve met has opened my eyes to life in a brand new means.

IBX: What’s your greatest hope(s) for the way forward for nursing and why?

Coyle: I hope that there are nonetheless caring people who wish to go into nursing. I additionally hope that hospitals have realized classes from the pandemic on the way to higher deal with their workers and nurses on an on a regular basis foundation, and never simply throughout horrific instances.

Sandy: I hope that nurses can really be valued. We’re in a tough time with nursing. I want to see extra positives proven within the media for future nurses, so that folks will get entangled in nursing and never be scared to affix.

Sears: My hope is that folks will see us and that we’re an intricate a part of the well being care system and that we’re wanted. We watch over sufferers, catch errors, and save lives every day.

IBX: What trigger(s) are you captivated with exterior of nursing?

Coyle: I’m captivated with supporting causes and organizations that assist mother and father. I don’t wish to simply assist mother and father after they’re within the hospital; I wish to assist them for a lifetime. I’m on the board of The TEARS Basis, which gives monetary help to households for funerals.

Sandy: My youngest son is deployed within the navy, so I’m captivated with supporting him and navy households. I’m additionally very energetic in suicide consciousness; my daughter and I take part in walks for this trigger yearly.

Sears: I’m captivated with nursing schooling and serving to individuals turn into nurses as a result of there may be such a scarcity. I mentor pre-nursing college students by exhibiting them the way to get into nursing college earlier than they apply. I want somebody had proven me the best way, and maybe I’d have been in nursing sooner.