I Am A Nurse

Apr 18

I am a nurse. I am a doer. Love is inherent to my being and my job is everything that has to do with anything. If there is a void in staffing or a soul, I will fill it. Not because I am expecting a reward, but because I truly care about my people, my patients, and my profession. I am a nurse. I use the times I’ve been hurt to identify with my patients who have been hurt, and I used the times I’ve been healed to help heal my patients who need to be healed. I understand, the mind, body, and soul are not separate. I understand if one is ill, the rest are ill. Medicine through an intravenous line produces synergy with the medicine of caring.

I am a nurse. I work in a system laced with imperfections, reflective of society’s current state. A system where sometimes it seems the good gals finish last reflective of society’s current state, but even then, I still have hope. I am a nurse, thus I am blessed and I am trusted to see the world in its most raw, inexplicable, unfair form of reality. And somehow, with resilience in my DNA, by the grace of my hope for humanity, and depth of courage, I still love it.

I am a nurse. My job and my being will be misunderstood. I used to relentlessly try to explain and convince them of the imperativeness of my role, but now I just let it go, because I know, this is far to divine to define in a box. Instead, I prove my worth because I have to, through my absence. They will not see me while I’m there, but they will see me when I’m gone. Likewise, they may forget my name, but they will not forget how I made them feel, for this is the work of a nurse.

I am a nurse. We are nurses. No matter our area of practice or education we are bound by an inherent ability to help people. We may not have been called to the profession, we may not even know how we ended up here, but we help people know what they need before they know what they need, for that is the work of a nurse.

We are nurses. We are a tribe, together, because of our history, our struggles, our love, our evolution – and I truly believe the best is yet to come. #iamanurse

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Danielle LeVeck

Danielle LeVeck (DNP, ACNPC-AG, CCNS, RN, CCRN) is a practicing Adult Geriatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in a busy Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care Unit. She graduated as a second degree BSN student in 2011 and has been working as an Intensive Care Registered Nurse ever since. Her experience includes cardiac medical and surgical intensive care patients, medical-surgical intensive care patients, and intensive care travel nursing.

When Ms. LeVeck became a nurse, she instantly recognized the beautiful quirks of nursing culture and healthcare in general. She was driven to share the stories of these “nurse abnormalities” because it was clearly evident how brilliant and instrumental nurses were in providing optimal patient care. Becoming a nurse positively transformed Ms. LeVeck’s life and she hopes to give to the profession as much as it has given to her.

Through her writing and storytelling, Ms. LeVeck strives to inspire and empower the next generation of nurses and renew the previous generation. Her additional passions include promoting synergy within the multidisciplinary team and incorporation of palliative care in the ICU. Overall, she attempts to use humor, raw vulnerability, and clinical precision to achieve authenticity in her online presence.

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